In 1997, Andrew Weinreich launched SixDegrees.com, letting members build a profile and list connections to friends, family and acquaintances. Media scholars generally treat this as the point where the modern social networking site began, ahead of Friendster (2002), MySpace (2003), LinkedIn (2003) and Facebook (2004).
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Milestone Year WhenAndrew Weinreich launched SixDegrees.com in 1997; sources do not give a more specific month or day for the launch. 1 Connections
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This newer generation of social networking sites began to flourish with the emergence of SixDegrees in 1997.
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- Credited To: Andrew Weinreich
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SixDegrees.com was a social networking service website that started in 1997
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