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title: "What was the largest social network prior to facebook?"  
description: "What was the largest social network prior to facebook?"  
author: "samay srivastava"  
published: 2018-03-03  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36117/what-was-the-largest-social-network-prior-to-facebook  
category: "social networking"  
tags: ["social network websites"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What was the largest social network prior to facebook?

What was the largest [social network](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12698/how-to-use-social-networks-to-sell-more-at-christmas) prior to facebook?\

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

It's anything but difficult to overlook that online networking hasn't been around until the end of time. **[Facebook](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32568/was-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-s-original-idea), Twitter, and other [social](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/44257/the-impact-of-social-media-on-lawsuits) locales have turned out to be so instilled in our everyday schedules that it feels like they've generally been here.**

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Another infographic from Morrison Forester investigates A Short History of Social Media, helping us to remember every one of the occasions from the most recent 15 years or so that have made online networking what it is today.

The infographic investigates when key social destinations and administrations propelled, as **SixDegrees.com out of 1997, Blogger in 1999, Friendster in 2002, Myspace in 2003, Facebook in 2004 and Twitter in 2006**. It additionally covers key occasions that happened inside the online networking circle.\
For example, back in December of 2006, Facebook declined **Yahoo's $1 billion offer to purchase the informal community** and on July 8 of this current year (2011), LinkedIn outperformed Myspace to wind up the number 2 interpersonal organization in the United States. \
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