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Academics Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison published a paper titled "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship." Onekey point they make is that Facebook is only the latest in a long line of social networks stretching back 10 years. Which means we only have another 90 years to go before the next media revolution. After the jump, Boyd and Ellison's timeline.
12:31 PM on Fri Nov 16 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
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Alternative use of headline: "The Office only the latest in a long line of situational comedies"
way to go danah-- Her blog should be required reading for anyone in the social network biz...
@ROIpositive: "The Office" also doesn't claim to at the leading edge of the centennial change in media.
great article!
What, no Geocities?!?
I think Michael Scott would beg to differ there.
I remember using Facebook in 2003 while I was in college. I certainly did not go to Harvard so that graph is wrong. Blasted!
I have to agree with Romeyinfc - where's Geocities, Angelfire, etc? They were set-up in a community setting, and were supposed to be around people's common interests.
I'm scared, though. I think I belong or belonged to most of those sites.
@pepelicious: Right, because danah was perceptive enough to realize there were more college students on Facebook than on Myspace. Sheer brilliance.
@Jeremy: Do not forget TheGlobe, their great-great-great-granddaddy. The first company to go public as "online community".
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