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...years away from undergraduate life, Sheryl K. Sandberg ’91 is now returning to the college scene. Facebook founder Mark E. Zuckenberg, former member of the Class of 2006, has recruited Sandberg, a top Google executive, to help run the social-networking juggernaut. Sandberg will now become Facebook??s chief operating officer. While at Google, Sandberg led Adwords—the advertising unit that accounts for the lion’s share of Google’s annual revenue—and headed the development of Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org...
While H-Link is supported by Facebook??s third-party application platform, the course data will come from the official files of the Harvard registrar...
...according to the growing Facebook group “How to delete your Facebook profile.” Some Harvard students said that they weren’t troubled by this dependence on the site administrators. “They obviously want people to stay on Facebook??that’s why they don’t make it easy to leave,” said Talal M. Alhammad ’11, a native of Saudi Arabia who added that the networking site allows him to keep in touch with most of his friends back home...
...News Feed,” a function that allows Facebook friends to follow each other’s activities. Before Facebook amended the tracking function, users found their gift ideas spoiled because they had not known to disable the feature each time they bought something. Facebook??s social advertising feature uses Beacon, an online tracking system which displays ads of participating companies from which users have recently made purchases. The system also alerts users’ friends to new purchases. Though the tweaks to the feature may have appeased most users, some users said they are still worried...
...According to Facebook??s Network Top Ten statistics, there are some subtle but meaningful distinctions between the average Harvardian and the average Yalie. On a typical day, Joe “Eli” Yale relaxes to the music of his favorite artists, U2 (Yale’s #1, Harvard’s #2), The Beatles (#3 and #5, respectively), and, of course, Beethoven (Yale’s #7; not on Harvard’s list). He engages in his favorite activities—reading, politics, and music, in that order—as well as some other...