Friendster and MySpace are both great examples of this. Both were the number one social media network at some point, and both were heavily burdened (if not kil

Friendster and MySpace are both great examples of this. Both were the number one social media network at some point, and both were heavily burdened (if not killed) by technical debt. In the case of Friendster, the poor scalability engineering often made the site nearly unusable, and at MySpace, an enormous engineering team struggled to release new features while Facebook rapidly launched innovation after innovation.