Skyrock (social network site)

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Skyrock.com

Type of site	Social networking service
Available in	French English German Dutch Italian Spanish Portuguese
Dissolved	21 August 2023 (2023-08-21)
Country of origin	France
Owner	Téléfun
URL	skyrock.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Launched	17 December 2002 (2002-12-17)
Current status	Defunct

Skyrock, also known as Skyblog, was a social networking service (SNS) based in France that offered a free space on the web for users to create blogs, add profiles, and exchange messages with other registered members. Skyrock.com ceased operations on 21 August 2023.

Skyrock.com began as a blogging site, Skyblog.com, launched as a side project of Skyrock radio station by its CEO Pierre Bellanger in December 2002. In May 2007, after abandoning the Skyblog.com brand, Skyrock.com was launched as a full-scale social network.^[1]

As of June 2008 Skyrock was ranked as the world's seventh largest social network with over 21 million visitors.^[2]

The website was shut down on 21 August 2023. According to the Skyrock team, anonymized content has been transferred to the National Archives of France.^[3]

Skyrock had a high penetration rate in France. In several French middle schools,^[when?] students used the platform to malign school personnel resulting in their expulsion and in the issuing of alerts by schools to warn parents and students about such behavior.^[4]

Furthermore, certain American newspapers attempted to associate the breakout of the 2005 civil unrest in France to users of Skyblogs.^[5] However, institutions of the French state never filed any formal complaint indicting the usage of Skyrock Blogs.^{[citation needed]}

A few prominent French institutions created a Skyrock Blog as a preferred tool to communicate messages. An example is the French Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Commission.

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