Nexopia
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| Type of business | Joint Venture, Corporation |
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Social Networking, Online Forums |
| Available in | English |
| Founded | February 2003 Edmonton, Alberta |
| Headquarters | Edmonton, Alberta Toronto, Ontario |
| Area served |
Western Canada Main (2003-2012) Worldwide (2012-present) |
| Owner | Ideon Media |
| Founder(s) | Timo Ewalds |
| CEO | Kevin Bartus |
| Key people | Dave Stevens, Boris Wertz |
| Employees | 10; As of 14 November 2008[ [ref]] |
| Parent | Ideon Media |
| Slogan(s) | Because your mom’s on Facebook |
| Website | Official website |
| Alexa rank |
 302,023; (As of 2 June 2016[ [ref]]) |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 1.4 Million users 200,000 active; As of 9 November 2012[ [ref]] |
| Launched | February 2003 |
| Current status | Active |
Nexopia is a Canadian social networking website created in 2003 by Timo Ewalds. It was designed as a general interactive site for people aged 14 and up, but the age limit recently was lowered to 13. Users are able to create and design their own profiles, friends list, blogs, galleries, articles, and forums. Interaction is accomplished through an internal personal messaging system, and public user comments on profiles, blogs or through threads and posts on the forums. In November 2012, Nexopia was acquired by digital ad network Ideon Media.
Founded in 2003, Nexopia was Canada's first online social network. Nexopia evolved from the community site called Enternexus.com, a website built by Timo Ewalds. This initial beta site was limited to 70 members and eventually led to the website Nexopia.com. When Enternexus.com was relaunched as Nexopia.com, initial growth was said to be 100 users in four days, and 225,000 users within 22 months For a brief period during that time, Nexopia.com maintained a level of growth of 10% or 3500 average new members per day.
In October 2010, the site had just under 1.5 million users and nearly 35 billion hits. As for January 2012, the site reports 1,636,990 users and 35,517,895,992 hits. That means a growth of roughly 140,000 users in just under 14 months, which is about half as many new users in half the amount of time as when the site started. In other words, the site is still growing by nearly the same amount of users per year as it was since its inception.
The website initially had problems using PayPal as a payment method for their premium service (Plus) reportedly due to their demographic and issues with stolen credit cards. It now uses Interac Online, a service that allows account holders at participating banks to make payments online through online banking.
The website has also been the target of hackers and has been targeted by Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attacks at least twice in its early days.
Nexopia launched an update to its user profile pages, the largest revision since the site's launch in 2003. The redesign includes a streamlined layout, Ajax controls for messages, galleries, and profile editing, new profile skinning options, and image resizing. The update to the website has caused much controversy among users due to recent issues. Such as slow load times, profile pictures being deleted or not uploading, private messages not being sent, forms not working correctly, and people angry simply because the site design was different. Nexopia staff had recently set up a poll asking what users disliked most about the new Nexopia site design. After finding that the majority of users disliked the new profile picture slider the most, Nexopia staff decided to provide the option to switch between the classic profile picture viewer and the new improved profile picture slider.
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