Facebook as a Social Network
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It's hard to make the claim that Facebook is no longer a social network -- after all they did invent the term*
However, after reading Eat24's breakup letter to Facebook, it's hard to feel otherwise. By definition, a social network in the "offline" sense is a grouping of related individuals (through locality, blood, or less often, through common interest) from which ideas are shared and consumed. The more groupings a particular person is, the easier it is to maintain this relationship. After all, it is exponentially easier to go for coffee with a relative or a friend from high school than it is to meet up with someone in another continent who shares a common interest.
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I love how @julian always* has to have** a ton of footnotes***
* well okay, not always
** but he does tend to do it on every blog post
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-- I agree that the term "social network" didn't come into widespread usage until Facebook came around...