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The first 'social network'

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Jim Scheinman
@jimscheinman
the first 'social network' birthed a hundred billion $ market and paved the way for Facebook, myspace, Bebo and all the other successful social networks. Sometimes the pioneer in a field isn't the one to make it..
Bill Morein
@wmorein · Head of Product, FiftyThree
Even earlier there was PlanetAll (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pla...), acquired by Amazon. But, not as influential.
Adeel Ahmad
@_adeel · Founder, Shopseen
Met my wife on Friendster! Take that Tinder!
David Singer
@singer · VP, Product Development
This was the first big one, but I always though of Six Degrees as the first social network that people actually joined* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six... * use not included