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Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by 8note on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:52PM (#13478328)
the wall was chat.

there was one screen where you could check on who's online, then you'd write on their wall

Re:TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004) by nommm-nommm on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:03PM (#13478385)
I remember, but it was really quite different than what you'd think of as a chat. I'd write something on your wall and you'd reply by posting something on my wall two days later. Everyone saw both. That was the only chat available. There was very little interactivity.

The wall was mostly equivalent to scrawling something in a public bathroom, hence the name.