Facebook used to just be a profile system. You put up information about yourself and hoped other people would look at it. People could write on your wall (timel

Facebook used to just be a profile system. You put up information about yourself and hoped other people would look at it. People could write on your wall (timeline now) and you could write on theirs. People at your university and your friends could see your profile. Nobody else could. I remember spending hours looking at other peoples profiles. They're a computer science major? I'm a computer science major. What kind of music do they like? WOW this is interesting. They also had this really fascinating "How you're connected" feature which would give you a list of friends that connected you to that person. You could pick almost any random person at the school (I went to a school with almost 40,000 students) and you would almost always be connected to them through your friends. MySpace, while offering many similar features, was annoying to use. Oh great, white text on a yellow background and emo music blasting on page load. It got to a point where I wouldn't ever click my friend's MySpace pages because I just knew it was going to be terrible. The exclusivity of it to college students was cool too. My friends at schools that didn't have facebook yet would be jealous of all the cool connections and groups we made on facebook that they couldn't do. Then, when it rolled out to their campus, they would do the same.