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In case you hadn't heard, social networking is big. Sites like Facebook and Twitter dominate the tech news sites with every move they make getting attention. How much are they worth? Who's using them now? What changes are coming? As with everything, social networking has a history.

Looking back over the decades, we can see what has led up to this "social revolution" that is taking over the Internet and entering into our real lives. It seems that as a society, we share almost everything. What we eat, where we shop, what we're watching on television (or Hulu, or Netflix, or...)--slowly but surely everything is losing its status as "sacred" with sharing becoming the norm.

To read the full, original article click on this link: The History of Social Networking | Fast Company

Author: JD Rucker