Dark Social
Oct. 12th, 2012 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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dreamwidth_metaDark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong
Summary: even before the big social networks started coming into focus, lots of social sharing on the web happened in places not so easily measured--chat and email, for instance--a practice that still continues to exert a greater influence on website visits than any social network today
Summary: even before the big social networks started coming into focus, lots of social sharing on the web happened in places not so easily measured--chat and email, for instance--a practice that still continues to exert a greater influence on website visits than any social network today
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Date: 2012-10-13 09:00 am (UTC)I spent the years before I joined LJ, 1996-2003, on IRC nearly every day. While some of that was one on one chatting, a lot of it was in channels, and I was definitely using the web primarily to make and keep social connections.