I'm doing some historical work on social network sites using the Wayback Machine and I've come across a site called Multiply. Today Multiply is much more about shopping than it is a full-blown SNS, but it's fascinating to look at what it was offering in 2004 - it's About page is basically a description of what we do on Facebook today. Most interestingly, though, is the level of granularity it offered in terms of who could see our posts (not dissimilar to Google+'s circles, which everyone is so excited about in that it solves a problem in Facebook). For each post you can specify who can see it at quite a remarkable degree of granularity (everyone; your network, your contacts, or a custom list). It also, in 2004, promises alerts when someone in your network does something (i.e., a news feed). Was anyone here on that site in those days? Does anyone know what happened to it given that they really seemed to have online social networking fairly sussed seven years ago. I'd be very interested to find out... Thanks Nicholas _______________ Dr. Nicholas John sociothink.com @nicholasajohn