Social Networking Sites : will they survive ?

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Abstract

Social Networking Sites (SNS) have achieved phenomenal success since the launch of sixdegrees.com in 1997. Original sites such as Friendster, Lunarstorm and MiGente, are now all dwarfed by the phenomenally successful Myspace1, and Facebook2. A useful historical record of the development of Social Networking sites was made by Boyd and Ellison in 20073, although more work is needed to understand the gratifications delivered, how users derive a sense of identity and the cross cultural implications to users. The goal of this short paper is to weave digitization, identity and community into an analysis that is both historically rigorous and conscious of contemporary innovations.

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Kent, B. J. (2008). Social Networking Sites : will they survive ? Nebula, 5(April 2007), 44–51. Retrieved from http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Kent2.pdf

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