Teens Are Joining a Myspace Look-Alike Called FriendProject
The site offers a nostalgic social media experience — but there are also safety and privacy concerns.
In the past week or so, many teens have fled the comforts of TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat to make profiles on a new social networking site: FriendProject.
Well, it’s not actually new — in fact, it's old. FriendProject was started in around 2008 to “give users the old experience back of what custom profiles were like.” It’s a “social environment where you can make friends,” and “Members have the ability to customize their profile, homepage, and blog to express themselves.”
FriendProject is most often compared to the old version of Myspace, which had been the most popular social networking site before the rise of Facebook. When FriendProject was first created many flocked to it as “the next Myspace”— a 2008 entry in Urban Dictionary defined FriendProject as “Myspace’s replacement” and “the future of networking websites.” Mashable even wrote about it in 2008.
But alas, as other social media platforms such as Facebook, and later Instagram and Snapchat, began to grow, FriendProject lost its once-magical allure and faded into the wasteland of abandoned internet projects.
