SNS response

The first thing that I noticed about this article is how it says that people have integrated social networking sites into their "daily practices." I find this interesting because it is not something that I usually think about, but it is definitely true. Before the emergence of social networking sites, or SNSs, there wasn't anything really comparable in our daily routines. However, now they are so much a part of our daily lives that many people, myself included, would not know what to do without them. I've never thought to define a SNS before, but the definition the article provides seems extremely accurate to me. As for the history, I think it's interesting that the first SNS, sixdegrees.com (which I have never heard of), took two years for users to be able to surf the friends list and was the first SNS to have this function. It is amazing that the speed of SNSs went from two years for this change to the rate at which things change now. It is also weird to think that SixDegrees failed because it was "ahead of its time" in that most internet users did not have a network of friends that was online. Now, the one of the main ways of communication is online. i think that the concept of identity signals and public displays of connection are some of the most interesting parts of the article. The question of real or fake self-presentation on an SNS has always been intriguing to me.