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Features of Old Facebook: - It's a photo album. Anyone who can view your page can see your photos. - You can also post status updates. - It publishes a list

Features of Old Facebook: - It's a photo album. Anyone who can view your page can see your photos. - You can also post status updates. - It publishes a list of your friends. Anyone is free to check that out. - Your friends can write on your wall, where anyone can see what they wrote. - It publishes your biographical data: where you go (or went) to school, where you work, whether you're single, and if not what kind of relationship you're in. - You belong to a number of "groups". The groups don't organize activities or act as chat channels; their purpose is that your page displays a list of the names of the groups to which you belong, and that list is an expression of your personality and/or ideological commitments. Which of those do WhatsApp groups do?

butler14 6mo ago
All the bits that matter, I guess
- thaumasiotes 6mo ago
  Which are...?
Izkata 6mo ago
"Groups" is New Facebook, the replacement for the Network pages. Used to be there was a whole section of the site meant for connecting with people at the same college/university as you, that you were automatically included in based on your email domain. It had a calendar and events and was geared towards real-world interaction.
- thaumasiotes 6mo ago
  > "Groups" is New Facebook, the replacement for the Network pages. "Groups" is 2004. Their domain was still "thefacebook.com".
  - Izkata 6mo ago
    You're thinking of something else, Groups didn't exist until 2010 (though I thought it was a bit earlier, like 2008 - I thought they came out about the same time the Network pages went away, while I was still in college): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/07/facebook-groups https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/07/facebook-... I do remember Friend Lists were much earlier though.
    - thaumasiotes 6mo ago
      > You're thinking of something else, Groups didn't exist until 2010 No, I'm not thinking of something else. You are assuming that when I say "groups", I'm thinking of the feature called "Facebook Groups" in your link, which is a stupid thing for you to assume. Here's a preserved screenshot of a 2005 page: https://www.shareaholic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Facebook-2004.jpg https://www.shareaholic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/... See the link in the left-hand sidebar saying "My Groups"?

butler14 6mo ago

All the bits that matter, I guess

thaumasiotes 6mo ago
Which are...?

Izkata 6mo ago

"Groups" is New Facebook, the replacement for the Network pages. Used to be there was a whole section of the site meant for connecting with people at the same college/university as you, that you were automatically included in based on your email domain. It had a calendar and events and was geared towards real-world interaction.

thaumasiotes 6mo ago
> "Groups" is New Facebook, the replacement for the Network pages. "Groups" is 2004. Their domain was still "thefacebook.com".
- Izkata 6mo ago
  You're thinking of something else, Groups didn't exist until 2010 (though I thought it was a bit earlier, like 2008 - I thought they came out about the same time the Network pages went away, while I was still in college): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/07/facebook-groups https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/07/facebook-... I do remember Friend Lists were much earlier though.
  - thaumasiotes 6mo ago
    > You're thinking of something else, Groups didn't exist until 2010 No, I'm not thinking of something else. You are assuming that when I say "groups", I'm thinking of the feature called "Facebook Groups" in your link, which is a stupid thing for you to assume. Here's a preserved screenshot of a 2005 page: https://www.shareaholic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Facebook-2004.jpg https://www.shareaholic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/... See the link in the left-hand sidebar saying "My Groups"?