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Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and music. [ 2 ]
Friendster was founded by Canadian computer programmer Jonathan Abrams in 2002, [11] before MySpace (2003), Hi5 (2004), Facebook (2004), and other social networking sites. [12] Friendster.com went live in 2003 and was adopted by 3 million users within the first few months. [3]
A social networking service is an online platform that people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. This is a list of notable defunct social networking services that have Wikipedia articles.
In 2013, Myspace relaunched with the goal of becoming a destination for discovering and sharing new music, watching videos and having fans and artists interact. Justin even dropped a new single ...
Anderson's father was an entrepreneur. [5] As a teenager at San Pasqual High in Escondido, California, Anderson was a computer hacker under the pseudonym "Lord Flathead" (friends with Bill Landreth), and prompted a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raid after he hacked into a computer system at Chase Manhattan Bank.
Friendster was an early social network that once boasted over 111 million users and was the inspiration behind MySpace [7] and other more modern social networks. Google offered to buy the company in 2003 for $30 million in Google stock (about 200 million shares) before Google had IPO'd in 2005.
In 2008, comScore reported that hi5 was the third most popular social networking service in monthly unique visitors behind Facebook and MySpace. [13] It was also the fastest growing social network. [14] However, international growth of Facebook later hurt hi5. [15] It was most popular in Latin America. [16]
With the site's front-end functionality generally depending in Adobe Flash technology, it was at that aspect different from prevailing social networks, such as Friendster and MySpace, which by that time at 2003, was mostly rendered as traditional HTML pages.