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Six Degrees
Six Degrees was launched in 1997. It allowed users to create a profile and to become friends with other users. This website is no longer available. In 2000 it was purchased for $125 million and in 2001 it was shut down. -
MyHeritage
It has over 50 million users. It was launched in 2003. It allows members to create their own family websites, share pictures and videos, organize family events, create family trees, and search for ancestors. -
Hi5
They have about 60 million active users. Hi5 is not particularly popular in the U.S., it has a large user base in parts of Asia, Latin America and Central -
Myspace
Myspace was created by Tom Anderson in 2003. Myspace was the most popular network till it was overtaken by Facebook in 2004. Myspace was the most popular network till it was overtaken by Facebook in 2004. -
Flickr
They host more than 3.6 billion images as of June 2009. Flickr also has groups, photo pools, and allows users to create profiles, add friends, and organize images and video into photo sets/albums. -
Facebook
Facebook was launched in 2004. It was first restricted for Harvard college students to communicate and socialize. 200 million active users world wide within just one day. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg. -
Flixster
This site is a social movie site allowing users to share movie ratings, discover new movies, and meet others with similar taste in movies. It was founded by Joe Greenstein and Saran Chari in 2005 -
Bebo
It is for ages 13 and over and it is a general social networking site. It was created by Michael and Xochi Birch. It is available in 6 different languages. It has a population of 117,000,000! -
Blogster
It is a site that you may make a blog that talks about whatever you want and anybody can view them. It was launched in 2005. It has 85,579 members. It is open to all ages. -
MyYearBook
It was founded by the Geoff, David and Catherine Cook. It was launched in 2006. It is the 5th largest network in the U.S with over 15 million weekly visits. -
Badoo
It is a site for meeting new people. It has a population of 86,000,000. It is for ages 18 and over. It is popular in Europe and Latin America. -
Twitter
Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey in 2006. Basically it is simply just "status" like on Facebook. 200 million users as to this day. It generates over 200 million tweets. -
Kontain
Kontain, which launched in 2008, allows users to follow each other through photos, videos, and music, rather than just simple status updates. They also actively recruit businesses to sign up, promotin their service as a way to connect with customers.
