Tencent's Qzone, attached to the QQ messenger, was by most measures the largest social network in China in 2010, with hundreds of millions of active users decorating their spaces and playing social games such as Happy Farm. The Western web rarely noticed it.
- Domain in 2010
- qzone.qq.com
- Launched
- 2005
- Owner in 2010
- Tencent
- Region
- China
- Status today
- Still active
What people used it for
- Personal spaces linked to QQ accounts
- Diaries, photos and music
- Social games like Happy Farm
Interface characteristics
- Heavily decorated, paid themes and widgets
- QQ penguin branding throughout
Notable features
- Paid decorations as a business model years before others
- Happy Farm, the game FarmVille resembled
What happened later
Qzone lost ground to WeChat Moments after 2012 but remains part of Tencent's ecosystem.
Archived on the Wayback Machine
Archived pages open on web.archive.org (Internet Archive). They are historical captures, not part of this exhibit.
