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What began as a good idea ended in failure. In 2004, Google launched Orkut, a social media networking site to find communities through keyword searches, including titles, descriptions, and browning through users’ memberships. Launching only a month before Facebook did, Orkut never really caught on with the digital world outside…

Have you ever heard of Weixin? Me neither. It is similar to WhatsApp in the United States but is only available in mainland China. WeChat—the English name for Weixin—is the similar overseas version for users with common functions and interfaces but the two apps do not belong to the same…