Trivia: What is widely considered to be the first social networking website?
Myspace
SixDegrees
Facebook
Friendster
The correct answer is SixDegrees
So why is this answer correct? : Launched in 1997, SixDegrees com is considered the first social networking site to grace the internet. It allowed users to create profiles, list their friends, and search their friend lists. Though these features existed on other sites before, SixDegrees was the first to combine them into one coherent social network. The site quickly became popular and attracted millions of users, but failed to become a sustainable business and closed in 2000.