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...Joseph Green ’05-’06 launched Essembly.com, a site that connects people who share beliefs on specific political issues, last September...
...Green worked as a research assistant for Fournier in the spring of 2005 and said he consulted Fournier about his idea more than a year...
...Green, who was president of the Harvard Political Union, said he thought of creating Essembly after he worked for Sen. John F. Kerry, (D-Mass.)’s presidential campaign in New Hampshire in the summer of 2003. That fall, he roomed with Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly Class of 2006, who launched Facebook.com in February...
...Green had heard of Six Degrees, an early social networking website that has since closed, and thought of putting a political spin on the online community trend. He thought it would be useful to have an online directory where users could see how they are geographically and politically connected...
After Facebook’s launch, Green said he realized that people use online social networking sites mostly for what he calls “social validation,” and he decided to create a site that would allow users to validate their political opinions...