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If you were in college in 2004 it was pretty unavoidable

• bruceboughton 14y ago
  Facebook didn't launch 'til February 2004. Initially it was only available at US Ivy League colleges and, then, in 2005 at some international universities, but it was not "unavoidable" in 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook
  • Semaphor 14y ago
    > then, in 2005 at some international universities Every, if you bothered to get your university internal mail unlocked. I had to send them a mail with the website of my German university and how our e-mail addresses looked, about 6 weeks later I was able tor register.
  • stinky613 14y ago
    Perhaps I spoke too broadly, but I signed up (according to my Facebook account) September 6, 2004 and only did so after being nagged by friends and acquaintances. So, for me when I look back, it felt unavoidable. Note: I went to a university in the US but not an Ivy
• StevenXC 14y ago
  But how many of us thought it would become proliferous as a global community? At the time it was locked down to each college (you had to have an @college.edu address to even register), and it wasn't until 2005 or 06 until high school kids got access, and then their parents, and Facebook tore down the dividers of their walled gardens. Then again maybe he was just a big fan of his MySpace page at the time.
  • sophacles 14y ago
    In mid-2006 I was hearing about facebook, and it was being described as: "kinda like myspace, but for college kids - something universities can buy into and keep the creepers[1] out". [1] Creepers being defined as people who just trolled social networks looking for friends/sex/whatever, that was new and terrifying to a lot of people then.