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Here’s a profile of a 34-year-old social network, ECHO, run by a woman named Stacy Horn:

At its peak in the late ’90s, ECHO had 3,500 members. Among them: writers, artists, musicians, actors, therapists, and even, briefly, John F. Kennedy Jr.

Now it has just 43 users.

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