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> Facebook was never "cool," even when I first got Facebook back in 9th grade, when I was around 14 years old At the time Facebook was cool, it wasn't open to

• ghaff 13y ago
  A bit blunt but, yeah. Facebook was arguably a lot more cool when you at least needed an .edu address to get on. (Or a bit before or after that point depending on your perspective.)
  • gaius 13y ago
    And a very specific .edu or .ac.uk at that. It's easy to be cool when you are leveraging exclusivity already.
• argonaut 13y ago
  Yes, but my point is that Facebook's ascendancy extended well into the period after Facebook lost it's "coolness," so concerns over FB's decline are overblown.