April 18, 2024

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What Happened To Friendster

What Happened to Friendster?

A Case for Your Very Own Center of Content

Develop and Focus on Your Center of Content - Lesson Learned from Friendster

Friendster was once a big social networking service. The service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, share content and media and discover events, music and hobbies. At its peak it had over 115 million registered users.

 

They tried to transform the service into a gaming site and this only made things worse for the people that wanted to use it as a social network. Friendster got it wrong and as big as they were they are now defunct.

 

On June 14, 2015 Friendster released the follow message to it members and the rest of the world:

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