An online platform people use to build social networks or social relationships with others who share interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections, typically through a personal profile and a visible list of connections. Media scholars trace this newer generation of sites to SixDegrees.com in 1997, with the profile-plus-friend-list model it introduced becoming the shared template for Friendster, MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook and the platforms that followed.
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Concept DomainMedia studies and digital platforms 1 Formulated Year Domain
Domain (category) Connections
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Additional Source SixDegrees.com, Wikipedia
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Social networking service, definition section
a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections
- Social networking service, history section
View the SourceSixDegrees.com, Wikipedia
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