Facebook only the latest in long line of social sites

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Nicholas Carlson

11/16/07 03:31PM

Filed to: Social Networks

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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.