The Facebook
For those who don’t know, TheFacebook.com provides a gigantic social networking service to students, “an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges and universities.” If you go to any of:
Adelphi – Alabama – Albion – American – Amherst – Appalachian State – Arizona – Arizona State – Arkansas – Auburn – Augustana – AUP – Austin College – Babson – Ball State – Bard – Bates – Baylor – Belmont – Bentley – Berkeley – Berklee – Binghamton – Boston College – Bowdoin – Bowling Green – Bradley – Brandeis – Bridgewater State – British Columbia – Brown – Bryant – Bryn Mawr – BSC – BU – Bucknell – Butler – BYU – Cal Poly – Cal Poly Pomona – Caltech – Calvin – Cambridge – Carleton – Carnegie Mellon – Case Western – Catholic – Central Florida – Central Mich. – Chapman – Chicago – Cincinnati – Claremont McKenna – Clark U – Clarkson – Clemson – CNU – COFC – Col. College – Colby – Colgate – Colorado State – Columbia – Conn College – Cooper Union – Cornell – Creighton – CSU Chico – CSU Fresno – CSU Humboldt – CSU Long Beach – CSU Northridge – CSU Sacramento – CU Boulder – CUNY Baruch – CUNY Brooklyn – CUNY Hunter – Dartmouth – Davidson – Dayton – Delaware – Denison – Denver – DePaul – DePauw – Dickinson – Dominican – Drake – Drew – Drexel – Duke – Duquesne – E. Illinois – E. Michigan – East Carolina – Eastern – Elon – Emerson – Emory – F & M – Fairfield – Fairleigh Dickinson – Fashion Institute – FAU – FIU – Flagler – Florida – Florida State – Fordham – Fullerton – Furman – GA Southern – George Mason – Georgetown – Georgia – Georgia State – Georgia Tech – Gettysburg – Gonzaga – Grand Valley State – Grinnell – GWU – Hamilton – Hampshire – Hartford – Harvard – Harvey Mudd – Haverford – Hawaii – Hofstra – Holy Cross (MA) – Hope – Howard – HWS – Ill. Chicago – Illinois – Illinois State – Indiana – Indiana State – Iona – Iowa – Iowa State – Ithaca – IUP – IUPUI – JMU – Johns Hopkins – Kansas – Kansas State – Keene State – Kennesaw – Kent State – Kentucky – Kenyon – Kutztown – Lafayette – Lehigh – Lewis & Clark – Long Island – Loyola Chicago – Loyola Maryland – Loyola Marymount – Loyola New Orleans – LSE – LSU – Lynchburg – Macalester – Maine (Orono) – Manhattan College – Marist – Marquette – Mary Washington – Maryland – Maryland BC – Marymount – Marymount Manhattan – McGill – Miami – Mich Tech – Michigan – Michigan State – Middlebury – Millersville – Minnesota – Mississippi – Missouri (Mizzou) – MIT – Monmouth – Montana – Montclair – Morehouse – Morgan – MS State – Mt. Holyoke – MU Ohio – Muhlenberg – N. Arizona – N. Illinois – N.C. A&T – N.C. State – ND State – Nebraska – Lincoln – New Hampshire – New Mexico – New School – North Dakota – North Texas – Northeastern – Northwestern – Notre Dame – NYU – Oberlin – Occidental – Ohio – Ohio Northern – Ohio State – Ohio Wesleyan – Oklahoma – Oklahoma State – Old Dominion – Oregon – Oregon State – Oxford – Pace – Penn – Penn State – Pepperdine – Pittsburgh – Pitzer – Polytechnic – Pomona – Portland – Pratt – Princeton – Providence – Puget Sound – Purdue – Quinnipiac – Radford – Ramapo – Reed – Rhode Island – Rhodes – Rice – Richmond – Rider – RISD – RIT – Rochester – Roger Williams – Rollins – Rose-Hulman – Rowan – RPI – Rutgers – S.F. State – Sacred Heart – San Diego – San Diego State – San Jose State – Santa Clara – Sarah Lawrence – Scranton – Scripps – Seattle – Seton Hall – SHSU – Siena – Simmons – Skidmore – Smith – SMSU – SMU – Sonoma – South Carolina – South Florida – Spelman – St. Andrews – St. Johns – St. Josephs – St. Lawrence – St. Louis – Stanford – Stetson – Stonehill – Suffolk – SUNY Albany – SUNY Buffalo – SUNY Cortland – SUNY Geneseo – SUNY New Paltz – SUNY Oneonta – SUNY Oswego – SUNY Stony Brook – Surrey – Swarthmore – Syracuse – Tampa – TCD – TCNJ – Temple – Tennessee – Texas – Texas A&M – Texas Arlington – Texas Christian – Texas San Antonio – Texas State – Texas Tech – Toledo – Toronto – Towson – Trinity College – Trinity U – Truman State – Tufts – Tulane – Tulsa – UAB – UC Davis – UC Irvine – UC Riverside – UC San Diego – UC Santa Barbara – UC Santa Cruz – UCLA – UConn – UMass (Amherst) – UNC – UNC Charlotte – UNC Greensboro – UNF – Union – University of the Pacific – UNLV – UNR – Ursinus – USAFA – USC – USFCA – USNA – Utah – UVA – Vanderbilt – Vassar – VCU – Vermont – Vermont Tech – Villanova – Virginia Tech – W. Illinois – Wake Forest – Washington – Washington and Lee – Washington State – WashU – Wayne State – Wellesley – Wesleyan – West Chester – West Point – West Virginia – West. Michigan – Western Washington – Wheaton MA – Willamette – William & Mary – Williams – Wisconsin – Wisconsin Milwaukee – WPI – WPUNJ – Xavier – Yale
then the Facebook is for you. For more information, see this Swarthmore article, as well as a short bit in NPR and Business Week.
Here are some images of the features of facebook, minus the ads it runs:
This is the start page of Facebook. From here you can view and edit your own profile, view or visualize a graph of your friends, search for other people on Facebook, or browse the people you are connected to.
Search on Facebook is easy–just type a name, and it will search your school for any near match. You can also search other schools, or search by user data, such as birthday or hobbies.
The recent friends feature is just neat–it lets you see who is currently on www.thefacebook.com, view recently updated profiles, and more.
Your profile is what everyone will see about you. It features more information than you could want, shows the set of a users’ friends, some of his facebook groups, and lets you wander from profile to profile via friends.
The most overlooked and cool feature of www.thefacebook.com is the “visualize friends” feature, which outputs an SVG connected graph of all your friends.
Why not give it a try and Facebook me?
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I don’t agree. I like Facebook.
i agree with Jenn, Facebook is stupid, too intrusive and generally a lame way to waste your time. go out and meet people it’s way more fun! problem with facebook is you can view all details about people before you see them, then where’e the fun, element of surprise and newness when you meet them? it goes. it’s pathetic and unpersonal that you know ppl’s favourite films before you greet them for the first time. and ppl you don’t know read messages you and your friends post to eachother. facebook has flaws, create sth better!
Facebook SVG
Facebook SVG: I’ve seen SVG applications mentioned on the main SVG mailing list, but rarely see them in the commercial press, so this article from Matt Marshall about the friend-to-friend Facebook website was a surprise. From their FAQ they require…
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Facebook isn’t so much about meeting people as having a big campus directory with customizable profiles, and a little bit of fun. It’s a vanity publication, and it’s social, but it’s not about meeting people. It’s just another way to communicate!
Facebook is stupid. If you want to meet people on campus, then leave your room and go meet people. It’s not hard when you want to meet people, just go out there and do it.
Dont put your personal information up like your ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER PICTURE and ask for friendship, hookups or more.. Seriously you might as well throw out your social security too.
People who use facebook are just asking to be stalked or assaulted. Honestly it’s just disgusting, stupid, and its sad.
Hi Tracy–they keep adding more and more schools, so eventually perhaps the two systems will interconnect?
Why isn’t Salisbury University on here? I have a lot of friends on here that I can’t connect with because I’m on http://www.collegefacebook.com and they are on http://www.thefacebook.com. Why can’t we all be together?
Why “cody,” what makes you say so? It’s a pretty decent, fast, social networking service. It’s not bad at all.
I think facebook is retarded
love,
cody
Hey Elliott-
Check out this editorial on the facebook that one of my friends wrote.
http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2004-11-04/opinions/14380