DiPiazza, Francesca, 1961-

Friend me! : six hundred years of social networking in America / Francesca Davis DiPiazza. - Minneapolis, Minn. : Twenty-First Century, 2012. - 112 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social networks: the ties that bind -- A string of beads: uniting Native Nations -- The knitted city: Puritan New England -- Coffee and conversation: a notion of freedom -- People skills: creating community in slavery -- A very social time: networking in a new nation -- Wired!: love, death, and the telegraph -- A smaller world: connecting the dots -- Hardwired: from earth to the stars.

Explores the history of social networking in the United States, from the early Native American councils to California's Allen Telescope Array.

ISBN: 9780761358695 (lib. bdg.) 29.95

Source: Copper Beech

LCCN: 2011021268

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social networks--History.--United States
Social groups--History.--United States
Communities--History.--United States

Dewey Class. No.: 302.3