With its bright, colourful design and customisable features, the new Noplace social networking platform is sure to appeal to anyone nostalgic for the Y2K years. In fact, this social network is in many ways reminiscent of Myspace or even Facebook in the 2000s.

Noplace is the latest must-have app that's on the rise. Launched on July 1, the social networking platform has won over users, briefly taking the number one spot among apps in Apple's App Store.

The platform's main attraction seems to be nostalgia. With bright colours, a simplistic blocky design, ways to integrate music and display personal interests, Noplace profiles are unmistakably reminiscent of Myspace. With the Y2K trend proving all the rage in movies and fashion right now, this new social network seems to be tapping in to the same wave of nostalgia.

In fact, Noplace founder Tiffany Zhong has made no secret of her fondness for this old-school vibe: "I missed how social media used to be back in the day ... where it was actually social, people would post random updates about their life," Zhong told Engadget. "You kind of had a sense of where people were in terms of time and space."

On Noplace, users can customise their profile by changing the background colour, entering their age or relationship status, and adding the music they're currently listening to or the shows they're watching. They can also share their interests, moods and guilty pleasures.

In addition to entering any additional information they wish to share in the "about me" section, users can display their 10 best friends, reminiscent of Myspace's "Top 8" feature.

For the moment, it's impossible to send photos and videos via the application, but messaging is already available, enabling users to create discussion groups. The app also has gamification to features. According to Engadget, the more people use the application, the more they can earn "badges" and reach new "levels" within the platform, enabling them to write on their friends' walls or simply interact with their posts, for example.

As well as having a vibe reminiscent of Myspace or Facebook in its early days, Noplace has similarities with Twitter, allowing users to post messages visible to everyone on the app: "Around 20% in the past week of posts have been questions," Zhong told Engadget, "The vision for what we're building is actually becoming a social search engine. Everyone thinks it's like a social network, but because people are asking questions already ... we're building features where you can ask questions and you can get crowdsourced responses."

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