The kids online are indeed goofing off - but it's that goofing off that's key to their ability to do more "serious" internet usage.
Photo: Emily Shur
He didn't have much choice but to sell. It was summer 2006, a little more than two years after Mark Zuckerberg had created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room as a way for him and his friends to better connect with schoolmates. In the intervening years, he'd raised $37.7 million from venture capitalists and transformed his modest Web site into a certified social phenomenon.
FACEBOOK FOUNDING: Both parties seem to have forgotten Aaron J. Greenspan, yet another Harvard classmate. He says he was actually the one who created the original college social networking system, before either side in the legal dispute. And he has the e-mail messages to show it.
For longtime users, the influx of grownups means that information once intended for a circle of fellow students is now available for anyone to see. That has introduced a new social conundrum: deciding whose invites should be accepted -- and how much of your profile they should be able to see.
"You can't really unfriend your mom," says Hillary Woolley, a junior at the University of California at Davis. "So I've been upping my privacy settings."
Facebook is to lose more advertising from its site after a government clampdown on where its campaigns appear.
The move by the government's advertising body, the Central Office of Information, comes only days after big companies including Vodafone withdrew from Facebook because their advertising had appeared on a profile page for the British National Party.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29 — Facebook, the online social network, has stolen some of MySpace’s momentum with users and the news media. Now, it is being subjected to the same accusations that it does not do enough to keep sexual predators off its site.
Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut’s attorney general, said that investigators in his state were looking into “three or more†cases of convicted sex offenders who had registered on Facebook and had “also found inappropriate images and content†on the service. The inquiry continues, he said, and state officials have contacted Facebook and asked it to remove the profiles.
Earlier this week, Comscore posted details about Facebook’s meteoric rise in users and their shift from posting drunken college photos to drunken post grad photos. College Humor has answered back with a study about what those people behind the statistics are doing.
They polled close to 26,000 students (1/1,000 of the users), finding out how many users actually read every book on their profile, or got laid thanks to Zuckerberg’s “social graphâ€. Here are some of the gems:
There comes a time in every young person's life—soon after teething, usually—when she must make a momentous decision: MySpace or Facebook? One's preference is a matter of taste.
Students at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda opened their yearbooks last month and found pictures they had already seen -- on Facebook, the Internet social-networking site.
In addition to the usual images of blurry hallway traffic, lockers and teens slumped at desks, this year's Walter Johnson Windup included scenes of student life clearly not intended for the yearbook...
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The kids online are indeed goofing off - but it's that goofing off that's key to their ability to do more "serious" internet usage.
Photo: Emily Shur He didn't have much choice but to sell. It was summer 2006, a little more than two years after Mark Zuckerberg had created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room as a way for him and his friends to better connect with schoolmates. In the intervening years, he'd raised $37.7 million from venture capitalists and transformed his modest Web site into a certified social phenomenon.
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