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Re:Doctorow: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook by Xichekolas on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @02:16PM (#84370)
Easy. Facebook was seen as the in thing on campus. If you had a Facebook profile, you were hip and cool and cutting edge. After a few months in 2004 it got to the point that not having a profile meant people simply forgot who you were (because they couldn't read your profile like they could everyone elses). Obviously it influenced none of your close friends, but people you just met would judge you by your profile and decide whether or not to include you in the future.

It was also a great way to find your friend's hot friends and set up a meeting somehow.

The fact you had to give them your college email address and a password was no barrier. Heck, not having to choose a user name or design your profile yourself made it easier to sign up.

(I can answer this since I was in college at the time it got started.)

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Re:Doctorow: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook by brlewis on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @02:26PM (#84374)
I don't think you've really answered his question. If not having a profile meant people simply forgot who you were, then you're talking about a time when facebook was already big.
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Re:Doctorow: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook by dnaquin on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @06:09PM (#84446)
well there was transition. when people realized, hey i can invite everyone to my party and not actually have to go around inviting people or posting signs around campus. if you weren't on facebook, you weren't finding out about the parties. simple.

really, every decision of the masses can be attributed to laziness?

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Re:Doctorow: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook by brlewis on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @07:40PM (#84477)
At the point when Facebook was a viable substitute for posting signs, there must have already been a lot of people using Facebook.
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Re:Doctorow: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook by Xichekolas on Tuesday December 04, 2007 @03:32PM (#86077)
Refer to my first sentence (Facebook was seen as the in thing on campus. If you had a Facebook profile, you were hip and cool and cutting edge.) to answer his question directly.

I can only explain everything after that to me being a blustery gasbag that likes to elaborate.

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