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social networking site

n
(Communications & Information) a website that allows subscribers to interact, typically by requesting that others add them to their visible list of contacts, by forming or joining sub-groups based around shared interests, or publishing content so that a specified group of subscribers can access it
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He cited Friendster, a social networking pioneer that lost ground to Facebook and MySpace and now caters to users in Southeast Asia.
Friendster, Inc., Mountain View, Calif., a top global web site based on traffic, has announced a new brand and web site packed with new features representing a significant milestone in the company's history and further signifying the company's evolution to focus on the Asian youth market.
With Samsung Share Pix, lets users easily upload images and videos to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket, Friendster -- a breeze.
Users logging onto the internet service are visiting social network sites such as Facebook, Friendster and Twitter.
Other social networking sites, MySpace and Friendster, also offer classifieds.
By Kim Hart By Kim HartInternet thieves are banking that the millions of users who log on to social networking sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, are trusting users, who are vulnerable to financial fraud and identity theft.
It said there are currently no sites like MySpace and Friendster for the demographic it intends to cater for.
With only the artist's first name to go on, together they searched Friendster's database until they found Trecartin's profile, then wrote to ask if he would send them a copy of the video in its entirety--a forty-one-minute work titled A Family Finds Entertainment, 2004.
Unlike its popular counterpart, Friendster.com, Facebook is open only to individuals with a university e-mail address or a screened high school address, and gay students are getting into it in a big way.
She met one of them on Friendster, the ill-advised internet social network, and it turned out one of the boys has a rich TV producer brother, who lent them his Manhattan penthouse while he was in LA.
Friendster.com was one of the best known, but was usurped by newcomer Orkut.com.
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