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Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary

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Re: Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary

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Post by ronilan »

> why were we the ones to build this? We were just students. We had way fewer resources than big companies. If they had focused on this problem, they could have done it.

What does "this" refer to? ;)

Exclusion by school email address, that's a resource. Big companies didn't have that, so they couldn't start "this" the same way, so they got to a different "it" and so on... Caring is important, but every social phenomena is unique by origin when you connect the dots backwards.

Re: Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary

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Post by eurleif »

ronilan wrote: post #5

> why were we the ones to build this? We were just students. We had way fewer resources than big companies. If they had focused on this problem, they could have done it. What does "this" refer to? ;) Exclusion by school email address, that's a resource. Big companies didn't have that, so they couldn't start "this" the same way, so they got to a different "it" and so on... Caring is important, but every social phenome…

Also, it's not just big companies who "could have done it". About a million different teenagers (including me) made virtual pet sites in the early 2000s. Virtual pet sites have profiles, friends lists and social features. If you get rid of the virtual pets, you have a social network. But that probably seemed too simple to us.

Re: Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary

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Post by izolate »

I remember being on Facebook in its infancy. When the user's "wall" was just a that was editable by anybody. I used to change the comments left by friends of friends to humorous effect (at least in my mind).

Does anybody else remember this? Or did I dream this up?

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