The Face Book

From the Social Software Weblog

Thefacebook.com, which resembles the website Friendster, enables users to upload photographs, personal information and their course lists. Members can create networks by looking up other users and inviting them to be friends.

After a friendship is confirmed, users are electronically linked to each other from their profile pages. The website also allows users to graphically visualize how their friends are connected in an intricate web.

...Teaching Assistant in Germanic Languages and Literatures Geraldine A. Grimm, one of the teachers who signed up for the website, said much of the faculty is prejudiced against the site… “After checking out the site, I was impressed by the all-inclusive nature of a Friendster-style Harvard site that brings undergrads, grads, alums, faculty and staff together,” she wrote.


From the mac weekly

Privacy issues confront the rapidly expanding collegiate online networkBrian MartucciStaff Writer
Launched in February 2004 by three Harvard roommates (who dropped out of school to run the site after it became popular), Facebook was '"initially a small project that we imagined Harvard students would enjoy,"' a company spokesperson said in the British newspaper The Guardian. "[It] really works as an information directory and not just as a site you go to when you're bored or need entertainment."

Full article at The Mac Weekly