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Facebook from the beginning has been about ranking people- its in the name. Who's face is prettier?
by acoil 5y ago
Facebook from the beginning has been about ranking people- its in the name. Who's face is prettier?
- otterley 5y agoYou’re thinking of HotOrNot. A “face book” has been a staple of US universities for decades to help new students identify each other. They were literally printed booklets with people’s faces in it.
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- munk-a 5y agoI actually disagree that Facebook has consistently been about ranking from the start, I think for a while in the middle it was legitimately a social media platform. But it most certainly started out as that. If you dig a bit into the history of it the primordial version of Facebook was essentially little more than HotOrNot.
- otterley 5y agoI was on Facebook from almost the first day, when it was only open to college students (and the domain name was thefacebook.com). It was definitely not as you describe. There was no ranking of faces. You can see for yourself by searching for “2005 Facebook screenshots”.
- gammarator 5y agoZuckerberg’s pre-Facebook project was called Facemash, and it was literally Hot or Not with pictures scraped from the online House facebooks. —February 2004 Facebook user
- stackbutterflow 5y agoSo I searched and this is what Facebook looked like back then: https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/facebook-profile-2005-update.jpg https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/facebook-pro... I think it looks so much better than the current design.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoThat's not 2005, I believe Facebook didn't get photo albums (i.e. non profile photos) until 2007-2008.