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Most of the people who used facebook in 2004–2006 had (and used) other ways to chat via their computers or cellphones. Most people’s profiles listed their phone
by jacobolus 9y ago
Most of the people who used facebook in 2004–2006 had (and used) other ways to chat via their computers or cellphones. Most people’s profiles listed their phone numbers, email addresses and various chat service handles.
Facebook wall conversations were not used as a poor imitation of private chat, but a separate form of quasi-public communication.
- floren 9y agoYeah, thinking back, Facebook was largely a convenient way to find and keep track of my friends' IM handles. And their phone numbers, back in the day when losing a phone meant losing all contacts because they're stored on the device.
- jimmies 9y agoThinking back, Facebook was really a face book...