25 2006 ; 10 years ago 2006 01 25 1 headquarters san francisco california u.s. key people armen berjikly founder & ceo neil sheth cto erik darby svp slogan s personal stories about every life experience website experienceproject.com alexa rank 9 751 april 2016 update 2 type of site social network service registration not required launched april 2007 2007 04 current status suspended experience project is a free social networking website consisting of various online communities . it operated from 2007 until 2016 when it announced it would suspend new registrations indefinitely . members submitted experiences their personal first person stories about various life experiences they had . users could then form or join communities based on these experiences and or interests and interact with other members who shared them . as of may 2016 the site had over sixty seven million of these experiences . 3 in march 2016 experience project announced that it would suspend operations indefinitely . the existing content of the site would remain publicly available but members would no longer be able to post new content or access their accounts . the site was officially suspended on april 21 2016 . contents 1 description 2 leadership 3 origins 4 general media coverage 5 notes 6 external links description edit the nodes of the network were life experiences such as starting a new job battling depression or surviving a divorce . members who had listed experiences in common were automatically connected . reversing the f.r.i.e.n.d.s. concept of traditional social networks in which connections are made between known individuals who then may or may not share experiences on the experience project connections were made based on shared experiences . the site emphasized anonymity to promote more authentic conversations that would otherwise be quelled by fear of recognition or embarrassment . 4 in march 2016 it was announced that experience project would be closing for the long term on april 21 2016 . new registrations or the posting of new content was suspended freezing the current library of experiences . reasons cited for the closure included difficulties maintaining user privacy in the face of increasing governmental powers challenges complying with new data privacy laws and general online trends that were moving away from long form content . 5 leadership edit armen berjikly was founder and ceo of the community with executive leadership including neil sheth as cto and erik darby as svp . origins edit experience project was started by armen berjikly in late 2004 . in 2013 berjikly gave a popular tedx talk that told the origin story of the site . 6 after a close friend s diagnosis with multiple sclerosis berjikly created this is ms an online community for ms patients and caregivers focused on inspiring hope in patients through knowledge of current research . as this is ms grew berjikly identified that the key benefit to patients was not the editorialized content but the relationships that formed between people who understood each other through the shared experience of having multiple sclerosis . experience project extended the ability to connect with people who understood each other to all experiences and all people . general media coverage edit forbes read write web ucla daily bruin wired review cnet review planet.nl reviews dutch venture beat notes edit experienceproject.com whois dns & domain info domaintools . whois . retrieved 2016 07 13 . experienceproject.com site info . alexa internet . retrieved 2016 04 08 . experience project . retrieved 6 may 2016 . deep dark secrets on the world wide web . ucla daily bruin . retrieved 2007 10 09 . until we meet again ... . experience project . retrieved 2016 04 08 . when change is not a choice . tedx . retrieved 2016 05 12 . external links edit experience project retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title experience project & oldid 743698493 categories companies based in san franciscosocial networking servicesvirtual communitieshidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from april 2016all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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