Friend me! : six hundred years of social networking in America /

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by DiPiazza, Francesca,
[ ] Published by : Twenty-First Century, (Minneapolis, Minn. :) Physical details: 112 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subject(s): Social networks --United States --History. | Social groups --United States --History. | Communities --United States --History. Year : 2012 Item type :
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Charlottetown Rural High School 302.3 DIP Available

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.