Friendster To Erase All User Photos and Blogs on May 31st

Remember Friendster? No one ever seems to talk about it anymore, which strikes us as very, very unfair. It deserves a little more credit for starting the entire social media craze. It didn’t get a movie like Facebook. It doesn’t get mocked like Myspace. People probably spend more time thinking about Bebo.

But Friendster, if you recall, started it all once upon a time. So what happened to it along the way? The site never really took off, and, having raised close to $50 million in venture capital, it was acquired by Malaysian payments company MOL Global at the end of 2009 for a reported $40 million, according

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