Social network

Social network

A social network consists of any group of people connected through various social familiarities ranging from casual acqaintance to close familial bonds. Social networks are often the basis of cross-cultural studies in sociology and anthropology. There is also "social network analysis", the mapping and measuring of social networks.

Internet social networks

Online social networks became a fad in 2003 with the popularity of such websites as Friendster, Tribe.net (a joint of the Friendster with the Craigslist idea) and LinkedIn. Search engine Google launched Orkut on 22 January 2004.

Sites such as LiveJournal, which encourages interconnection of weblogs, approaches this idea.

Internet social networks

See also