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Does making money make a SNS unpopular?

My gut feeling tells me that Social Network Services (SNS) do not exist because they are so great. They always provide for a basic need they fulfill, which for me has been to start a group in which I...
Xbox Live as a social network site?

Xbox Live as a social network site?

While my own Xbox 360 is still being repaired, a hapless victim of the dreaded ‘Red Ring of Death’, gamers everywhere are using the console’s social network programme called Xbox Live. Rightly so, I might add. Microsoft’s Xbox was...

Is Couchsurfing.com an Actual SNS?

In her research paper "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship", Danah Boyd makes explicit what the features of a social network are and what their purpose is. I decided to check if these features are present in the...