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Facebook deals with neither faces nor books. What's up with that?

Posted - April 19, 2018

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  • 44614
    Good question...millenials are strange.
      April 19, 2018 7:48 PM MDT
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  • 7939
    I'd suggest watching "The Social Network." I found it immensely interesting. 

    From what I could gather (others feel free to correct me or add), the dorms or houses on campus used to hand out actual paper books (called face books) which had the names and headshots of people, so that the people within the houses could know each other. Over time, some of them went digital, but they weren't networked together. Mark created a script that pulled in all the info from the various houses and created "The Face Book" as a singular entity. It was designed to be a networking site purely for Harvard students, and then later other universities. 
      April 19, 2018 8:17 PM MDT
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  • 44614
    Sounds too spooky for me. People becoming zillionaires from other's stupidity.
      April 19, 2018 8:20 PM MDT
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  • 7939
    Eh... you know how it is with the elite. They network within their own. Really successful people have powerful networks- they know who to call on when they're starting a venture or need help with something and they know who to call when they need money. At the onset of it, it was supposed to be an elitist social network, exclusive to the ivy leaguers, which is kind of brilliant on its own. The fact that less-than ivy leaguers are now spending hours a day killing brain cells with certain game apps... that part is a little spooky. 
      April 19, 2018 8:34 PM MDT
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  • 44614
    I'm glad you agree with me. I don't have a facebook account and never will.
      April 19, 2018 8:38 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    I saw it when it was first released.
      April 19, 2018 8:55 PM MDT
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  • 7939
    ... The film answered this question. That's how I knew the answer.
      April 20, 2018 1:15 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    I posted a group photo of my family units and Facebook correctly identified every face.
      April 20, 2018 12:15 AM MDT
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  • 44614
    That's kinda creepy.
      April 20, 2018 1:55 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    What's creepy is the number of friend requests I get from young ladies in other states. Then I found this:
    https://ici.radio-canada.ca/special/sextorsion/en/index.html

    Now I check every profile and search the photos in google images. All but one have been deleted as fake profiles.
      April 20, 2018 6:23 PM MDT
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  • 44614
    Yikes. I am glad I do not have an account.
      April 20, 2018 6:53 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Me as well.
      April 20, 2018 7:57 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    It was created for college students so maybe that helps explain it.  In college books are part of it but the social aspect is equally important for many. 
      April 21, 2018 11:00 PM MDT
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