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Social networking platforms have become essential for people to keep in touch with one another and for businesses to reach out to more people to sell their services and products. While social media and networking platforms utilize various forms of media such as images, audio, and visuals, which has led to some confusion, there is contrast between both. Unlike social media platforms which primarily serve as a communication channel to share ideas and information, social networking sites focuses on creating and maintaining relationships. While humans are inherently social, networking sites started out in the mid '90s. Here's how social networking sites evolved over the years.

1995 - Classmates.com.

Classmates.com in 1996. IMAGE: Geek Wire.

Classmates started out in December 1995 and was a list of school affiliations in the U.S. Founded by Randy Conrads, the platform had features such as user profiles and friends list. However, following the company's sale in 2004, the platform's popularity plunged after numerous controversies linked to it. The investigation by then New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was the nail on the coffin. The company was then rebranded to Memory Lane, an online nostalgia center, before it switched to being a platform for people to find their former high school friends.

1997 - Six Degrees.

Six Degrees is touted as the pioneer to social networking sites. IMAGE: Buffer. Often considered the platform that kicked off social networking sites, Six Degrees only survived up to 2001 since its inception in 1997. This, despite boasting more than 3.5 million users at its peak. The name of the platform was inspired by the concept of six degrees of separation coined by Hungarian author, Frigyes Karinthy in 1929. It's a concept where we're just six people away of people we know. The concept obtained greater popularity after American playwright included it in his play in 1990. Six Degrees, created by Andrew Weinreich, allowed its users to send and receive messages and even had a bulletin board for people to post items on each other's profiles.

Currently, Six Degrees' domain is still accessible.

2001 - Ryze.

Ryze is often seen as LinkedIn's predecessor. IMAGE: CBS News.

Ryze had features that allowed its users to build their profiles, add and delete contacts and send messages to one another. While the platform claims to have more than a million users globally, it's popularity never really caught on. The platform is believed to have served as an inspiration to Friendster's founder, Jonathan Abrams, to create his own social networking platform.

2002 - Friendster.

Friendster in 2004. IMAGE: Internet Archive.

Some of you reading this have probably been on this platform. During its heydays, it was popular as not only a social networking website, but also as a blogging platform. Founded in March 22, 2002, by Jonathan Abrams, the platform was famous for allowing its users to customize their profile pages. Friendster is often considered one of the original social networks as it allowed its users to upload online content and media and share them with their friends. It was touted as a dating site back then. However, as competition became stiff with the advent of other social networking platforms, Friendster was turned into a gaming platform in June 2011. The pivot was strategic as it saw its user count jump to more than 115 million with 90 percent of traffic coming from Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia.

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However, as the social media landscape continued to evolve, Friendster decided to suspend its services in 2015 and eventually closed down on June 30, 2018.

2002 - LinkedIn.

LinkedIn in 2003. IMAGE: Contentbuket.

Close to two decades since its launch in December 28, 2002, LinkedIn has become a go to for businesses to hunt for talent and for job seekers to procure jobs. Its popularity led Microsoft to purchase the platform in December 2016, and by June 2019, the platform has a whopping 630 million users across 150 nations. The rise of LinkedIn is seen it as a threat to conventional job seeking websites due to the fact that users can directly apply for jobs at the press of a button while keeping in contact with their peers professionally.

2003 - MySpace.

While Friendster enjoyed a brief period of lack of competition, in August 2003, MySpace was formed by Brad Greenspan, Chris DeWolfe, Josh Berman, and Tom Anderson. The platform became popular among bands as it allowed customization of profiles and was instrumental in giving birth to Arctic Monkeys. Following its acquisition by News Corporation for US$580 million, MySpace became the world's number one website in 2006 and was valued at a whopping US$12 billion in 2007. Unfortunately, like everything on the internet, its popularity was short lived. As it went numerous redesigns, the company was eventually sold. Most recently, MySpace confirmed that over 50 million songs uploaded between 2003 to 2015 were lost due to server migration issues. Currently, the platform is under the ownership of U.S. media conglomerate, Meredith Corporation.

2004 - hi5.

hi5 was among the first social networking sites to introduce privacy features. IMAGE: Office Chai. While other social networking sites had predominant users from the U.S. and Asian nations, hi5, launched in 2004 gained huge amount traffic from Latin American nations, Tunisia, Romania, and Mongolia. By 2007, it became the second highest social networking platform in terms of traffic after MySpace. Founded by Ramu Yalamanchi, the platform began catering towards gaming and entertainment by 2009 onwards. The platform was among the first to include privacy features such as allowing users to make their profiles available for everyone or only to their friends. However, the assets of the platform were sold to IF(WE), then known as Tagged, in December 2011.

2004 - Orkut.

Perhaps some of you would remember this, but there was a point in history when Google had experimented in creating its own version of a social networking website. No, not Google+.

But Orkut.

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In January 2004, Google created its own social networking site which started out through invites by members. It was made after the tech giant had failed in its attempt to purchase Friendster back in 2003. However, due to its overtly exclusive nature, Orkut never succeeded and was dubbed a failure. And this paved way to another social media platform that took the world by storm. If you thought Mark Zuckerberg is a genius, you're only 50 percent correct because luck was certainly on his side. When Facebook was launched in February 2004 exclusively for Harvard students, it started gaining in popularity when it was open for the public in September 2006. From then on, the platform swiftly gained traction. A film, The Social Network, was then made chronicling the rise of the social media giant. As of December 2019, the platform boasts a whopping total of 2.50 billion monthly active users. It now owns WhatsApp and Instagram, and few more. The success of Facebook made Zuckerberg the eighth richest person in the world with a networth of US$62.3 billion.

2005 - Yahoo! 360 Degrees.

Even before the platform opened its doors to non Harvard students, there were already attempts by other companies to challenge MySpace and Friendster's growing dominance. Among them were Yahoo! 360 Degrees. Just like Orkut, users could only register based on invites. Just like Friendster, the social networking site had profiles and blogs which could integrate with other Yahoo! products such as Flickr, Yahoo! Music and Messenger. However, the platform only lasted close to four years before it was shutdown in July 2009.

2005 - Bebo.

Launched in July 2005 by Michael and Xochi Birch, Bebo was hugely popular among the young due to its widget-style profile editor and ease of use. By 2008, the social networking platform had over 34 million users and was considered Facebook's competitor for a brief period. However, after it was sold to AOL in March the same year for a whopping US$850 million, things quickly went south.

2011 - Google+.

Unlike its previous reincarnation, Orkut, this platform was seen as a legitimate rival of Facebook as it had features similar to Zuckerberg's platform. Google+ also had a slight edge as it had a video chat function called Hangouts, capabilities to link to tech giant's other products such as Google Drive, Blogger, and YouTube.

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