All The Social Media Platforms We Have Forgotten About

1. Vine

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Vine was a platform where you could make and post small videos - pretty much the precursor to TikTok. Vine took over for some years and it was one of the first short video platforms to start the trend. After years of popularity, it started to die out due to competitors and finished in 2016.

2. MySpace

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If you were a part of the MySpace generation, you probably think back on it fondly. It really was a huge success for several years, around 2003 to 2009 especially. You even had the ability to embed your favorite music videos and it was thanks to MySpace that the likes of Nicki Minaj  was launched to success.

3. Musically

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Musically was launched in 2014 and it pretty much replicated exactly what TikTok has done more successfully - but essentially it was a former TikTok and ByteDance ltd. bought it and merged the company. The app again allowed users to watch and create short video content, often music/dance based.

4. Friends Reunited

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If you've heard of this you're probably from generation X, if you've not heard of it it's not totally surprising because it was kind of a flop. FriendsReunited had the aim to do exactly that, reunite friends. Yet, it launched in 2000 and it never truly took off. It attempted another relaunch in 2012 to no avail.

5. Bebo

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Okay, who remembers Bebo? This one was for the millennials. Bebo was one of the first popular social media sites as it started up bang in the middle of the era when social media was becoming taking hold of the world. One of its unique features was the ability to design your own profile template. Nevertheless in 2013 this also joined the top of the social media apps no longer used.

6. Tumblr

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Okay, Tumblr hit and it seemed like they'd really done something new here. It wasn't quite like other social medias that were out yet, ahead of its time some would say. Tumblr had its moment with its popularity amongst angsty teens, but is now a distant memory for most.

7. MSN messenger

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Oh, the good old days of MSN when things were SO much simpler. It was a very basis messaging service where the best you could do was send what we now call a GIF, and back then was some kind of pixelated picture saying something along the lines of 'cool beans'. It's no wonder it couldn't keep up with the likes of today's socials.

8. Blackberry Messenger

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There was a time a few years ago when it seemed like every man and his dog had a blackberry phone. If you didn't, you weren't part of the blackberry club and you couldn't use Blackberry messenger. But, this social media phased out as quickly as it had phased in and it's no longer used today.

9. Google Plus

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You'd think that Google being one of the most successful companies all time and undoubtedly the most successful and most used search engine, would be able to create their own successful social media. But no. They've never managed to do it and Google Plus came and went very quickly.

10. Peach

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Peach launched in 2016 but it never really managed to take off or gain huge amounts of popularity. For a very brief moment, it started to gather some enthusiasm, however, it never managed to establish itself as one of the major players amongst the social media apps.

11. Yik Yak

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YikYak at one point seemed like it would really take off. If you happened to be on a college campus when YikYak was big, you'll know that it could be a lot of fun. It showed people in the area who could post a comment anonymously. It was usually full of jokes or witty comments or things going on around you. Yet again, it blew up in popularity yet after a couple of years the hype completely died out.

12. Google Wave

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Google Wave was another attempt by search engine giant Google to establish a popular social media account. Again, it failed. In fact the initial hype lasted around 4 months and eventually it was discontinued altogether. Google Wave didn't have much about it that made it different to any other messaging service.

13. Habbo

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The days of Habbo, you could create your character and you could chat to anyone and everyone. It was kind of like a game as well as a chat room. Again, it was something different and you could walk around and interact. It was popular for many years but with popular social medias today Habbo ceased to exist.

14. Friendster

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Friendster became Facebook's competitor for some time and it worked in a very similar way - apart from you could also see how many people had viewed your profile! But, technological glitches and an ever changing social media world meant that Friendster was another social media not to last.

15. Vero

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Vero became popular for working in a chronological feed without algorithms or promotions from bots. But, it was actually its huge wave if success that made it suffer as it was growing too quickly for its own technology to deal with and it eventually ran out of the playing field.

16. Yahoo! Messenger

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Yahoo messenger was an instant messaging service, much like many other social media messaging apps. It began in 1998 and it managed to last until 2018 by varying features and consistent updates. But, the likes of Facebook meant that there was a social media everyone was using and its popularity started to decline.

17. Google Buzz

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And here is the third attempt from Google to start at all time favorite social media app. You guessed it. It didn't work. The major problem with Google Buzz wasn't a lack of popularity, it was an expensive lawsuit over privacy controversy which led tot hem paying out $8.5 million and shutting down the app after just 2 years.

18. SixDegrees

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Six Degrees first started out in 1997, named after the concept of six degrees of separation - intended to reunite people together. But, Six Degrees never managed to gain popularity like some of the social media giants such as Facebook and it only lasted three years.

19. Meerkat

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Meerkat was a live streaming platform that hit success as it captured a real market of people wanting livestream content, yet Twitters periscope and Facebook live overpowered Meerkat as two already established social media companies with more influence.

20. Ello

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Ello was essentially a social media like any other, yet it didn't have the ads and it was super easy to use and navigate. Initially it started to thrive so much its user couldn't keep up, but after the initial hype of the launch interest slowly began to die out.

21. Ping

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Ping offered something a little bit different. You could listen to songs but also see what your friends were listening to and what music they were reviewing. It continued in popularity until an upgrade of iTunes and essentially the company giant Apple left Ping with nothing left.

22. ConnectU

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Connectu nearly became today's Facebook and is most likely what inspired the Facebook team. It was intended to connect school pals and peers together on a social media site. For some reason it failed, but Mark Zuckerberg took inspiration and managed to create his own version.

23. Vitalskate

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Vitalskate was intended to be the social media platform for skating culture. And it was for some time. But again, the success was very short-lived. It allowed you to connect and share photos etc. But, it also ended up on the heap of unsuccessful social media.

24. Orkut

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Orkut was yet another attempt by Google at a social media site, yet this time keeping their name out of it. The intention really was to solely reconnect people and help people connect with friends. But, you couldn't 'accept' a friend, and so the only way to keep someone you didn't want from connecting with you was to put them on 'ignore'.

25. Xanga

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Xanga came about back in 1999 and it was a place to share things with friends such as posts, media reviews, music ,or even the books you were reading. It was going quite well until MySpace came along and basically overtook it until Xanga was no more.

26. Pownce

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Pownce emerged in 2007 as a micro-blogging site. Yet, it didn't have enough differences to distinguish itself from the more popular and powerful Twitter. Despite a brief enthusiasm, within 18 months the whole thing was said and done and Pownce was finished.

27. Digg

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Digg was intended to be a site to share news, media as well as share people's opinion pieces. Digg lost its power to the bigger social media sites, yet they still had a 'Digg' button to link the two. It technically still exists in some form, but a very minimized version.

28. The Hub

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The Hub had a huge company behind it...Walmart. So, it's obvious that The Hub was also a shopping site that had tried to blend itself in with a social media app. The whole thing didn't really work or reach any kind of success and it finished back in 2006.

29. Eons

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Eons attempted to specialize in a category suited to their target audience. And their target audience was baby boomers. Yet attempting to reach the older generation is a more difficult feat, and they still preferred to go for the already bigger and established options out there.

30. Surfbook

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Surfbook...which sounds very much like Facebook but came before, wasn't ever very well known. In fact, you may not have even heard of it. However, they did set a precedent for social media to come and they did actually introduce the very first ever 'like' button.