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template message nexopia the logo of nexopia screenshot web address official website slogan because your mom s on facebook 1 registration required available in english owner ideon media launched february 2003 ; 13 years ago 2003 02 2 alexa rank 302 023 ; as of 2 june 2016 3 ref current status active nexopia is a canadian social networking website created 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 . 4 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 . 5 contents 1 history 1.1 website changes 1.2 forums 2 members 3 criticism 4 memberships 5 references history edit founded in 2003 nexopia was canada s first online social network . 2 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 6 unreliable source for a brief period during that time nexopia.com maintained a level of growth of 10 % or 3500 average new members per day . 7 unreliable source 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 . citation needed 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 . 8 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 . who when 9 website changes edit 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 . 10 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 . 11 forums edit the forums are the main social aspect of the website . nexopia plus subscribers have the option of creating their own forums which can be open to any user or be a private forum that only invited members can view . citation needed in early 2016 the website changed to an online forums . 12 the forum uses software from xenforo ; 13 before the change wordpress was used . 14 members edit over 95 % of its users are canadian with over 1.4 million member accounts and over 200 000 active users and a hit count of over 33 billion . no nudity racism violence or gore are allowed in any of the forums or profiles although photos of drugs are accepted only to a certain degree and that degree is only a small amount of marijuana and the use of pipes and bongs . alcohol is also accepted . any other controlled substance heroin cocaine or any other classified hard drug is not allowed . all profile pictures are checked by specially appointed photo moderators before being allowed up on a user s page . photos put on a user s profile are not checked but there is a report abuse button where another user can report anything that is not to nexopia code of conduct . nexopia also takes a hard stance against copyright infringement presumably in fear of litigation . over the last few years nexopia has come under fire 15 from various hardline parent groups who blamed many of their children s problems on the website and tried to have it be shut down . this has resulted in a policy change and forced nexopia to be more strict about what users post on the website . in march 2007 four students from sherwood park alberta were expelled from school and twenty given suspensions in a case of cyberbullying . 16 students from the elk island school district used nexopia to create profiles of their teachers in which classmates posted defamatory silly derogatory and libellous information on the teachers pages . 16 criticism edit the website became a prime target for online predators . 17 18 19 since a user s profile can be completely open to the public all the profile images and information are view able . users often post personal information like their address mobile telephone number family members relationship status and what school they attend . online spam has increased such as through dummy accounts which have created that send spam messages to users linking them to websites containing pornographic materials or malicious information . citation needed the plus feature was recently introduced into the mac s convenience stores . 20 as convenient as it may seem a lack of staff knowledge and availability has led to the plus feature being pulled from macs locations . users who do not follow the rules may get a simple ban from the website or have their account frozen . citation needed in march 2012 the website founder was found to be in violation of federal privacy laws because it keeps personal information indefinitely . 21 as of november 2012 nexopia is working with the privacy commissioner to ensure regulatory compliance . 5 as well the website was used by the now convicted serial killer cody legebokoff . who met the victim fifteen year old loren leslie online on the website . 22 memberships edit users with free accounts have access to standard features such as forum posting private messaging user profiles with comments photo uploading a user blog and an image gallery . monthly paid subscriptions are offered at 5 to fee gain access to extra features such as advanced user search forum creation increased media gallery capacity and online file storage and the removal of ads . references edit koul 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