[Sociam-soton] Re: Anatomy of a dead social network

[Wendy Hall]

That's really interesting Max, thanks

Wendy

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On 28 Feb 2013, at 16:45, "electronic Max" <emax at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> This is is a very interesting article from the perspective of the
> life-cycle of social machines, since it discusses a number of factors
> that contributed to Friendster's decline.
> 
> Interesting that they had access to the Friendster dataset; from a Web
> Observatory perspective we might ask what aspects of this dataset were
> most useful for this kind of analysis and how might we do the same /
> deeper analyses for other systems?
> 
>> From MIT Technology Review:
> Autopsy of a Dead Social Network
> http://www.technologyreview.com/view/511846/an-autopsy-of-a-dead-social-network/
> 
> Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before
> Myspace and two years before Facebook. Consequently, it is often
> thought of as the grand-daddy of social networks. At its peak, the
> network had well over 100 million users, many in south east Asia.
> 
> In July 2009, following some technical problems and a redesign, the
> site experienced a catastrophic decline in traffic as users fled to
> other networks such as Facebook. Friendster, as social network, simply
> curled up and died.
> 
> ++
> 
> Max
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