Aspects of social networks have long been present in dating services such as Match and Classmates. The notion of social networking first formally appeared on the Internet in the late 1990s, with services like FireFly, eGroups/OneList, ICQ and Evite – which allowed groups of people to coordinate certain kinds of interaction.
Read Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet from the Read/Write Web
Pingback: JibberJobber Blog » Blog Archive » Another Blog Carnival Casualty