5 social networks that no longer exist

Facebook is currently experiencing the worst crisis in its still young history, but it is unlikely to close at any moment. Except that goes several social networks have not been so lucky over the years and now inhabit a virtual cemetery of discontinued services.

Then get to know - or remember - some of them, and try to understand the reason for each crash. And the warning is: we will only talk about sites and services already disabled. Therefore, places that are completely deserted, such as Google+ and Ello, will not be cited.

1) Friendster

Friendster was the first internet site known as a social network. He left in 2002, before Facebook or MySpace, and had something unheard of: You could create a profile just for me and add contacts you knew or didn't know in real life. In just a few months, it reached 3 million users and became the subject of everything that is reviewed.

And he survived especially in Asia. In 2009 it was sold for $ 26 million by a conglomerate in that region and two years too completely changed to become a gaming site, already without social networking content. This veteran was permanently discontinued in June 2015.

2) iTunes Ping

This is a little unknown! In 2010, Apple launched a social network to work with the music store. It's iTunes Ping, which allowed users to follow their favorite artists and view posts from them and other users, as well as know what they were hearing right now. You could even access the platform on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

But the service was full of spam, fakes and had limited availability for a few countries. In September 2012, it was closed.

3) Formspring

Formspring was launched in November 2009 and conquered the internet quickly. It was a very simple system where you would create a profile and get questions from others, like curiouscat or ask.fm.

In March 2013, he became Springme and later became part of a portal called Twoo, but without the original content. The failure was for a number of reasons. It was fraught with security holes, made room for cyberbullying and simply fell out of favor.

4) Yik Yak

But you talked about cyberbullying, Yik Yak. This smartphone-only social network came out in 2013 and turned into a fever in US colleges and universities. It is basically a mural that is created based on geolocation, bringing together nearby users who can post anything anonymously within 200 characters.

Needless to say, jokes and heavy topics like racism and homophobia were frequent there, and the app gained little international fame after so much controversy. Although it started as a $ 400 million startup, it closed in April 2017.

5) Orkut

And there was no way to close the list without talking about the good, old, homesick Orkut. The social network started in 2004 as the result of a Turkish Google engineer named ... Orkut. Community breakdown brought together people with similar tastes, scraps and testimonials were great ways of communicating, you spent more time setting up your profile than choosing clothes to leave home and news that came later, like Happy Harvest and BuddyPoke, conquered Brazil .

The success was such that the headquarters came here in 2008. Unfortunately, it began to fall precipitously from 2011, with the rise of Facebook, and closed the doors for posts on September 30, 2014. The archive with communities and The possibility to save photos and profile information has also gone down, but the Brazilian has not yet overcome this loss.

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