Friendster has been relaunched roughly 24 years after it first debuted as one of the first social networking websites. Credit ...

Two defunct social media platforms are getting revived this week: Vine and Friendster. But the new versions each have a twist.

Since its inception, the social-networking service Friendster has taken a militant stance against members posting fake profiles of cartoon characters, political figures, celebrities and bogus people.

Is some patent medicine the prescription Friendster needs to get back on its feet? A pioneer in the area of online social networking, the company and its Web site quickly fell from grace. Now it's ...

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A recent NY Times article entitled “Wallflower at the Web Party” told about Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams and his decision NOT to accept a $30 million buy out offer from Google a few years back, ...

Look back at some of the social media platforms from the 2000s, and realize that kids today will never understand.

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With a million members and counting, servers for six-month-old Web site Friendster are staggering under demand. Copycat competitors to the site are cropping up, and rumors of imminent subscription ...

Friendster has gone live as a social gaming portal, the latest incarnation for one of the pioneers of the social networking space. The new Friendster uses Facebook Connect as a social-networking ...

Friendster recently sent a mass e-mail to try to make new friends for its social network. Instead, it made some enemies. The one-time hot spot dug deep into its network to pull out the e-mail ...