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After the ill-fated “facemash?? debacle—where, for a few short-lived hours, students perused their peers’ often-unbecoming likenesses online—it seemed that Harvard students’ hopes of a campus-wide, electronic facebook had been dashed. As we all remember, the site was quickly quashed at the behest of students who contested the site’s more unsavory nature of prompting students to rate their peers’ attractiveness without their permission. But, if not for pesky privacy issues, the site’s 450 visitors...
Witness the glory, the range of Ivy-League neuroses soothed by this simple electronic formula: We Harvard students could indulge our fondness for judging those around us on superficial criteria without ever having to face any of the judged in person. On the “facemash?? website, we were all masters of our own domains of rejection and approval, and we never had to deal with anything more socially challenging than a parade of nameless, awkward registration-day snapshots...
...rating our fellow students and the chance at being named the third-hottest guy or girl in all of Leverett House were not, in the end, as powerful as the urge to protect privacy and defend ourselves against the potential injury such public judgment could cause. Within hours, the facemash??s sheepish lord had taken the site down and had posted apologies to offended individuals on a number of e-mail lists...
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