It’s hard not to wonder whether Friendster’s request that users back up their account information bodes something ill for the site’s future: What’s really going to happen when everything gets deleted at the end of next month?
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Facebook has quietly protected its dominant position in social networking by buying the Friendster portfolio of patents from MOL Global.
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Have you ever heard of Friendster? If you live in the United States and are under the age of 20 then probably not. Anybody in the social media space knows Friendster as a metaphor for a great success gone awry. Friendster was the first site to make social networking mainstream through an invite only system which attracted millions of users during which time the founders turned down a $30 million acquisition offer from Google.
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