Thinkpages
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Type of site | Social networking service Publisher |
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| Available in | 94 languages |
| Founded | July 19, 2002 in Lacivitas, Hollona and Diorisia |
| Area served | Worldwide, except blocking countries |
| Owner | Thinkpages Holding Corporation |
| Founder(s) | Marcos Perle |
| CEO | Marcos Perle |
| URL | thinkpages |
| Registration | Required (to do any activity) |
| Users |  4.22 billion monthly active users as of 2028 |
| Launched | July 19, 2002 |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | C++ |
Thinkpages is an online social media and social networking service. Founded in Hollona and Diorisia in 2002 by military engineer Marcos Perle, its name comes from its original format as a blog with social characteristics. The platform gradually transitioned from blog services to full social media interactivity and became widely available throughout the Levantine Union by 2007, expanding to worldwide access by 2010. As of 2028, Thinkpages claimed 4.22 billion monthly users.
Thinkpages can be accessed from devices with internet connectivity, such as personal computers, tablets and smartphones. After registering, users can create a profile revealing information about themselves. They can post text, photos and multimedia which are shared with any other users who have agreed to be their "friend" or, with different privacy settings, publicly. Users can also communicate directly with each other with Thinkshare messenger, join common-interest groups, and receive notifications on the activities of their Thinkpages friends and the pages they follow.
History
Thinkpages was conceived of by Marcos Perle, an engineer attached to Levantine Union defense forces on the Vandarch, in early 2002. Perle envisioned the space primarily as a blog for general thoughts primarily targeted at individuals on military bases throughout the Levantine Union, and with the blog features he included a primitive social networking component in order for military personnel to meet each other online. Launched in July 2002, the service was successful in Vandarch area military postings, and began to spread throughout northern Dericania by early 2003 as personnel using the service were deployed to other regional bases. Civilian use of the platform is believed to have begun around this time, as users of the platform would return home following the end of a military tour. A military email was originally required to create an account, but it was opened to all residents of the Deric States by early 2004. The platform expanded to Urcea in 2005. During this rapid expansion, Perle had returned home from the military and hired a small group of programmers in March 2003. Between March and October 2003, the blog functionality remained the primary development area until developers noticed that a majority of users were not posting long-form blogs regularly but rather using the connectivity side of the platform, which became a higher development priority. Blog and social media functionality remained equally developed through early 2005, when the primary team began to focus solely on the social media element with a small blog development team hired by Perle in February 2005. The blog developer team continued through 2008, when the blog service was entirely discontinued. Thinkpages became available to the entire Levantine Union on July 1, 2007.
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Feed
Thinkpages central communicative area is the "feed", an area where messages of up to 240 characters (known as "thinks"), photos, or videos may be posted by a user. Thinks, photos, and videos may be directly shared by users on their feed by pressing the "rethink" button.
Beginning in the late 2010s, the short form repeatable video format became compatible on the feed.
Profile
User profiles on Thinkpages display all feed content generated by that user as well as photo albums, groups that user is a member of, and other related information. Users may tag other users in photographs on their profile, such as group or social setting photos.
Groups
Users on Thinkpages may join specific groups and make group-specific thinks that are only viewable by members of that group. Groups on Thinkpages quickly supplanted message boards as the most popular way to form discussion, fan, and creative groups throughout much of the Occident.
Thinkshare is the built in messenger on the Thinkpages platform, allowing users to directly communicate with eachother as well as share content and thinks posted by themselves and other users.