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Reading about how the characteristics of the first settlers in a new territory set the tone for the way that territory then develops. See e.g. anti-authoritarian Scots and Irish in midland USA. Something similar true of social networks?
@kirsten Oh, absolutely. Look up danah boyd's recent set of articles (Jan, 2017 and on) at Medium especially on MySpace, FB, 4chan, /b/, etc.
Founder cohort dynamics are /fascinating/.
