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Apparently I was wrong. Facebook users actually love reading 25 things about themselves. I never expected to receive so many e-mails defending a person's right to read about how much his high school biology lab partner hates goat cheese. (Read the original "25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About...
About midway through Clarel’s first year at Harvard, Facebook began to sweep across the Yard. Seemingly ideally suited for freshmen, who tend to accumulate friendships like trading cards, Facebook quickly became a student-body sensation,en route to reshaping the social-networking world at large. It seemed like everyone in our class had created a Facebook profile by the end of freshman year. Except Clarel...
...loss of Clarel is tragic for everyone who knew him. In his honor, a Facebook group has been created to pay tribute to his memory, serving as a platform for all friends and classmates to share a story or remembrance. I would urge all such individuals to join and actively take part. However, to pay tribute to Clarel, this alone is not sufficient...
...can’t say with any certainty why Clarel never joined Facebook. But I do believe that he had an innate understanding of its limitations. For Clarel, keeping in touch was important, but touch itself–the warmth and intimacy of in-person engagement between friends–was something without substitute. I certainly am grateful that Clarel touched my life, as are so many countless others...
...What Internet payment options are there today? PayPal is the most famous, but it has transaction costs too high for impulse buys of less than a dollar. The denizens of Facebook are embracing systems like Spare Change, which allows them to charge their PayPal accounts or credit cards to get digital currency they can spend in small amounts. Similar services include Bee-Tokens and Tipjoy. Twitter users have Twitpay, which is a micropayment service for the micromessaging set. Gamers have their own digital currencies that can be used for impulse buys during online role-playing games. And real-world commuters...