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Dead Internet Theory: How SixDegrees.com, the 1997 web-of-contacts network, built profiles and transitive friend lists before most people were online, why YouthStream shut it down in December 2000, and what that timing says about network growth.
Dead Internet Theory: A platform can remain difficult to leave even when users dislike it because much of its value comes from the people, groups, businesses, and relationships already gathered there.
Dead Internet Theory: Quit Facebook Day in 2010 showed how difficult it is to organize a mass departure from a social network when each participant's reason to leave depends partly on whether everyone else leaves too.