Tumblr, MySpace, Foursquare: what happened to these old networks? – The Saxon

Many early social networks lost popularity to make way for to new, even more viral tools.Long before the rapid rise of giants such as Facebook and Twitter, MySpace, Foursquare and Tumblr were prominent among many Internet users in the early 2000s.Victims of success of their competitors, many of these social networks have sunk into anonymity. Some have been able to adapt and have even managed to become profitable. Others did not suffer the same fate and are now relegated to web relics.Tumblr started in 2007. This microblogging site was popular with many millennials and older Gen Zers who made up a large portion of the site’s users at its peak in 2010.Often members of communities centered on common interests, many Tumblr subscribers have had personal blogs where they share content about celebrities, TV shows, or artists. Eventually, social networks such as Instagram and Reddit, which made it possible to better share and discuss these interests, ended up supplanting Tumblr. The network then becomes a place for communities and blogs that share pornographic content that is not tolerated on other platforms.The decline continues in 2018, with a pornography ban that comes when the app is removed from Apple’s App Store for…
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