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Friendster and publicly articulated social networking

boyd, danah michele·2004·CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DOI 10.1145/985921.986043
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This paper presents ethnographic fieldwork on Friendster, an online dating site utilizing social networks to encourage friend-of-friend connections. I discuss how Friendster applies social theory, how users react to the site, and the tensions that emerge between creator and users when the latter fails to conform to the expectations of the former. By offering this ethnographic piece as an example, I suggest how the HCI community should consider the co-evolution of the social community and the underlying technology. Author Keywords Friendster, social networks, configuring users, identity

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Authors
boyd, D. M.
Venue
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2004-04-24
Pages
1279-1282
DOI
10.1145/985921.986043
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435
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15.20
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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