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Everything about Friendster
Social networking service
Friendster is a social networking service originally based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2002. Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands, and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages, and comments with other members via profiles and networks. It is considered one of the original social networking services. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: FriendsterA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: The Best American Erotica 2007The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The mechanism of collapse of the Friendster network: What can we learn from the core structure of Friendster?Cited 13 times
- Go sideways: SixDegrees.comA closely related topic
- Go sideways: MyspaceA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The mechanism of collapse of the Friendster network: What can we learn from the core structure of Friendster?
Switching Behavior between Social Networking Sites : Exploring The Philippine Case of Friendster Versus Facebook
My friendster, Myself: Identity Construction, Presentation and Negotiation Through the friendster Website. Website Review of friendster
📚 Books worth reading
The Best American Erotica 2007Susie Bright · 2007
Art lifeLawrence Rinder · 2005- 📕The science of growthSean Ammirati · 2016
Collecting and the InternetSusan Koppelman Cornillon · 2008
MuteJospehine Berry Slater · 2007
A social strategyMikołaj Jan Piskorski · 2014
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