“No one can be number one forever” said by a great man,
person who said these words are less important than the meaning of the words.
These words are acceptable in every field of work not just sports but every
part of the life includes social media website. Yes I am talking about the
title of this post before Facebook there were many other social websites which
were very famous among the users. Most of them are available but some of them
are not among us. To tell you about those famous social media websites, top five
are chosen by popularity.
1 Orkut
On 24 January 2004 google launched a Social website called
Orkut. Orkut was very famous in Brazil and India. In year 2008 Orkut got very
large amount of user as compare to its competitors. The famous feature provided
by Orkut was “Scrapbook”. With this feature users can share their emotions on their
friends Orkut page. This was not the feature which attracted a large number of
users, but also scrapbook feature user can share picture, videos, songs and gif
images using html codes. Even with these features Orkut cannot survived for
long time. Orkut was officially closed on 30 September 2014.
If you want any data provided on Orkut by you, you can
retrieve that data by using takeout.google.com/setting/takeout/custom/ourkut
I hope you will find some great memories in that data.
2 Google+
After closing the Orkut, google was not over with the social
website thing. Google launched Google+, at first it was only for the Staff of
the Google Corp. But eventually they opened the gates of their new website
Google+ for users all of over the globe. June 2011 google+ in came to existence.
Now there are 41 Crore users using this social website. They also changed looks
of the website many times. Latest look is pretty amazing, to compete with Facebook’s like
button they launched +1 button, by which you can show your appreciation regarding
that post.
3 Myspace
August 2003 this the year and month in which Myspace was
launched and Myspace is still operational. But the figures say that number of
users is less as compare to the golden days of this site. Till 19 April 2008 Myspace
was famous than Facebook with more than 7.6 Crore users, even for the
celebrities this website was best option to interact with their fans. Now
Myspace almost have 5 crore users active. Unlike other tech companies it also
didn’t changed according to time and that became the main point for its
downfall.
4 Connect-U
Connect U was launched in May 2004. It was developed by
Camroon and Tailor Winklevoss of Harvard University. These two were the class
mate of Mark Zuckerberg. Firstly Mark was going to help them to make this
website but then he changed his mind and get busy on the new project and that
project is now popular with the name Facebook. This website had almost same
features as Facebook like groups, chatting and etc. Those two was also had a
legal session with Mark. Unfortunately they had to shut down the website in
year 2013. But Connect U was also very famous in its starting days.
5 Hi 5
In 2003 Hi 5 knocked the doors of social media websites and
became very popular. In 2007 it was ranked second most popular social media
website, but in 2008 it was defeated by Facebook. It was mainly popular for
photo sharing with friends. They also introduced the gaming feature which
allows users to play games with friends. It gets 10,000 ranking according to Alexa.
It has one more amazing features by which you can make new friends called “Meet
me”. If you want visit this website then you can because it is still
operational.
Now you all will think that Facebook is most famous social
website around the globe, but no there are several countries where facebook is
ban, and in Russia VK.com is much more popular then facebook even they can
access facebook.
