Very interesting, lots of good insights. danah boyd and Nicole Ellison's Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship from 2007 covers the first

Very interesting, lots of good insights. danah boyd and Nicole Ellison's Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship from 2007 covers the first half of them same time period Mark's writing about. what's intereting is that their timeline starts in 1997 with Six Degrees, then LiveJournal, Asian Avenue, Black Planet, LunarStorm, MiGente, Ryze, and Cyworld -- all before Friendster in 2002 and MySpace in 2003. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html