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Facebook Opening Up For The Public

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the getting-to-know-you-getting-to-know-all-about-you dept.

Krishna Dagli writes to mention a BusinessWeek article about a move by Facebook to open up to the public. Up until now, in order to join Facebook you had to be an alumnus from certain High Schools, Colleges, or companies. Soon, individuals living in any one of 500 'geographic regions' can sign up. From the article: "People who joined Facebook because it was primarily a school-focused network may feel that it's losing a key distinction. As with the 'news feed' announcement, reception to this overhaul will come down to how well Facebook communicates. For the average student at New York University, for instance, little changes. The only people who can browse his profile before were other NYU students and that will stay the same. The change simply allows for 500 new groups to form that all operate independently on the Facebook platform. No one can browse all 9 million registered users." Update: 09/12 16:29 GMT by Z : Fixed latin conjugation. Mrs. Tomlinson would be so proud.

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  1. This is differnt? by Siberwulf · · Score: 4, Funny

    How is this different than MySpace now? other than the fact that now sexual predators know that a majority of the memebers are coeds?

    1. Re:This is differnt? by Garse+Janacek · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, facebook generally doesn't make the backs of my eyeballs feel like they're on fire, the way the page design on myspace usually does...

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  2. "An alumni"? by Simon+Garlick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Latin, motherf*cker, do you speak it?!

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  3. Coming soon: by shoptroll · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet there's going to be a merger at some point. Coming soon: FaceSpace!

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    1. Re:Coming soon: by andphi · · Score: 3, Funny

      And then, a few merger-generations later, we'll find the weblog ecology split down the middle: FaceSpaceLiveXangaBlogFriender and .Mac.

  4. Townies...!!! by DeusExMalex · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great. Now I get to be harrassed by townies on the Internet, too. Profile = private.

  5. She's a guy! by SeaFox · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm not looking forward to having random middle-aged men sending me friend requests on facebook (I got these even as a male on myspace, and the college ladies will have their inboxes filled... *shudders*)

    Good thing you added in that parentheseed part, you almost got added as a friend to a bunch of middle aged nerds' user pages!