Draugiem.lv
Draugiem is a social networking website launched in 2004. It is one of the largest social networking website in Latvia with approximately 2.6 million registered users.
The Draugiem social network operates under the Draugiem Group, an umbrella organisation that owns other IT-related companies which have developed as suppliers of technology to the social network.
The English-language version of Draugiem is known as .
History
The Draugiem.lv social network was founded in 2004 by Lauris Liberts and Agris Tamanis. In 2007, the company reported that it had reached 1,000,000 users. By 2017, the company had opened offices and facilities in Cēsis, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Charlotte and Tijuana, as well as relocating their Rīga headquarters to a bigger building in the neighborhood of Torņakalns. In 2019, Mapon opened offices in Estonia and Finland.In the 2018 Latvian parliamentary election, on October 6 the main page of Draugiem.lv was hacked and replaced with an image of a Russian flag, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Russian army, as well as text in Russian saying "Latvian comrades, this is for you. Russia's borders are boundless. Russian world can and needs to unite everyone who values Russian culture no matter where they live – in Russia or outside its borders. We recommend using the phrase 'Russian world' more often", while the Russian national anthem played in the background. The website was taken offline and re-opened a few hours later.