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By that definition, the telegraph was the original social network, preceding emails by over a hundred years. The definition of social networking is debatable,
by joefourier 9y ago
By that definition, the telegraph was the original social network, preceding emails by over a hundred years.
The definition of social networking is debatable, but I don't think one that encompasses every communication medium is useful.
- monocasa 9y agoI would say that communications media that addresses based on an individual's identity, and has infrastructure for public and pseudo public group communication counts. Email + listserv counts, IMO, whereas your example of telegraphs would not. You could probably implement a social network on top of TELEX if your we're feeling ascetic though.