Like the fact that I was on Facebook in college when it was still in its “for college students” era (I got an account like the second week after it expanded to the rest of the Ivy League) probably means I have a quite idiosyncratic relationship with it I take for granted
I have no idea who this is. This is not news. Conceivably if I took in all information from one source I might want it to show me this photo, I’m totally at sea who would want it described
Like I had accepted that Facebook would just borglike reproduce other networks’ functionality, but as like an option on top of the feed I’ve been used to since 2003, but the feed itself seems to have kind of become NextDoor recently
Which probably makes more sense for a general-use social network in 2021 than “by legacy analogy to all your college classmates trapped with you on campus”, really
As I never tire of repeating, I was one of the first 6,000 users of Facebook and in all the time it’s never been as bad for me as people have often made it out as, and I’m increasingly sure it’s because I regularly prune my friends list by going through and asking myself “do I recognize this person as someone in my life”
I joined Facebook really early, like when there were 3,000 or so people on the whole site and 600 of them might pass into my actual field of vision in any given week. In the beginning you were segregated into networks based on what school you attended and you could do like an OKCupid search on your entire network. It had a plugin architecture and one of the most popular plugins (this was before the news feed) alerted you when your friends broke up, so you could swoop in and mack on your crushes before anyone else claimed them.
reminder Facebook was a dating app from the start
I’d heard The Kids were using Instagram as Facebook these days, but looking through my matches and their “moments” I’m starting to suspect they’re using Tinder as Instagram.
Getting old is so confusing.
I joined Facebook really early, like when there were 3,000 or so people on the whole site and 600 of them might pass into my actual field of vision in any given week. In the beginning you were segregated into networks based on what school you attended and you could do like an OKCupid search on your entire network. It had a plugin architecture and one of the most popular plugins (this was before the news feed) alerted you when your friends broke up, so you could swoop in and mack on your crushes before anyone else claimed them.