The first somewhat social platform that I’ve used was LiveJournal; I used it around 2004-2010. Back then, we had posts and comments, but one of the notable features of the platform was the uni-directional friend relationships. The number of people who befriended you was somewhat of a status symbol, with a special term “тысячник” (a person with 1000+ reverse friend connections) used to denote Popular People. That said, my recollection is that people mostly wrote what was fun or i...
