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

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 -- Small world : connecting the dots -- Hardwired : from earth to the stars -- Source notes -- Selected bibliography -- Further reading and websites.;Examines the history of social networking in America over the last six centuries, and discusses how social media such as wampum belts, newspapers, and telephones transformed into text messaging and Facebook. Explains why humans need to network, and theorizes as to what the future of human networking may look like.