When did social networking start?

Question

This is for a school web-page project so answers will be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

are you asking when is started as in....the year people started social networking....or when do people start using social networking in their lives..........????Or when in their livess is it the most important?

the answer to if its the first one was about ten  years ago, when people actually started going online more and building more "important" relationships so they would still have those people in their network.

The answer to the second one is...when they are in midle school is when they realize its usful but dont really do anything with it

The aswer to the third question is...after college and right after HS. Actually its mostly after high school

Answer 2

maybe 92,000 bc?

but for the science of social networking, you want to look to the works of Émile Durkheim and Ferdinand Tönnies. They did some early work in the late 1800s

Émile Durkheim and Ferdinand Tönnies

now, as far as computers being used as social networking tools, the development of multitasking computers which could run more than one thing at once happened in the early 1960s, chat and ways of sending text to another user were invented immediatly after that, my guess is the first "wanna get lunch" via chat or text transfer happened the same day the software was installed, by the early 70's people were not constrained to the same machine for this type of communication, BBS systems, send mail, ARPANET and other communications were happening all over.