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Integration with other apps.
Contains a built-in gaming platform.
Robust messaging, group, and chat options.
Popular site for spreading false information.
Game invites can get annoying.
Questionable business practices involving selling users' information.
Hi5
Focus on social gaming.
Some baseline features remain, including sharing photos and interests.
Requires users to be 18 or over.
Has become primarily a gaming site with fewer social options.
Friend requests are via emails instead of on-site.
Myspace
Focus on finding and sharing music.
Expanded to cover more areas of pop culture.
Not as popular as it once was.
Site has deleted users' blogs without notice.
Suffered a massive data breach in 2008.
Ning
Focused on making your own social connection.
Ability to give your internet a custom domain.
More geared to site creators than users.
Ning is likethe social networkof social networks.
Learn how to create your own social data pipe on Ning.
X/Twitter
Ability to mute and block users and individual words you don’t want to see.
Easy to curate your feed to see what you want.
Encourages brevity with character limit.
Site may show you content (likes, retweets) from accounts you aren’t interested in.
Moderation system can be opaque and seemingly arbitrary.
Full of bots and fake accounts.
More of a micro-blogging service with social networking features, X has become something of a cultural phenomenon.
It’s easy to use and share tweets.
Badoo
Ability to find people based on interests.
you’ve got the option to do a livestream to hang out and meet new people.
Wider availability of people not based on location.
Basically a dating site.
Some features locked behind a membership.
Badoo is one of the most popularinternational social networkswith a large user base around the world.
It includes the standard “swipe-to-match” feature of sites like Bumble and Tinder.
