SixDegrees.com

SixDegrees.com was an online service to build a social network ( Social Network Service ), which was founded in 1997 and pioneered this site genre is considered.

The name refers to the six degrees of separation, the average of six acquaintance relationships are those that the studies of the small-world phenomenon, any two people in contact.

Features

SixDegrees.com was, according to a published by Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison examination of the first service, which had the basic features of contemporary social network sites: The service made ​​it possible to create profile pages to list friendship relations with other users and to browse the friends list of other users.

About a messaging system befriended participants were able to communicate with each other up to the third degree of acquaintance and unsubscribe discussions on a forum system. The use of the service was free; SixDegrees.com funded by advertising.

History

SixDegrees.com was founded in 1997 by the lawyer and financial analyst Andrew Weinreich.

The first to all interested parties standing service in 2000 sold to Youth Stream Media Networks, 2001, however, temporarily suspended. 2010 SixDegrees.com was revived as a closed network of invited participants. Since mid-2013, the site is no longer accessible, the last entry in the Internet Archive is from March 2013.

Although SixDegrees.com during its heyday in the late 1990s had more than one million participants, it was not possible to convert the site into a profitable venture. According to founder Weinreich this was because at that time the user rarely had large active on the Internet of friends. Therefore SixDegrees.com have suffered from a lack of content and thus of reasons to stay on the page. Furthermore, the Service had a problem with spam.