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Tyler: This site would be based on the idea that girls want to meet guys who go to Harvard. The difference between what we’re talking about and MySpace, Friendster?...
...Friendster??s fizzle raises the question of whether Facebook.com can maintain its site traffic...
...these new projects, thefacebook.com—a social networking database for college students similar to Friendster??generated the most publicity at Harvard and beyond...
...that Harvard’s answer to Friendster??thefacebook.com—has begun to spread its influence beyond the wrought-iron gates of Harvard Yard to Stanford, Yale, Columbia and other accredited colleges, the unenlightened masses enrolled at these “peer” institutions are beginning to catch on to the College’s online craze. But progress always has its detractors. Students at Columbia renounced the spread of thefacebook.com earlier this week, saying they were “pretty annoyed” and threatening to “Google Bomb?...
...While Friendster??s popularity on campus has waned in recent months, what it and thefacebook.com share in common is that just about every profile is a carefully constructed artifice, a kind of pixelated Platonic ideal of our messy, all-too organic real-life selves who don’t have perfect hair and don’t spend their weekends snuggling up with the latest Garcia Marquez. There’s little wonder why Harvard students, in particular, find the opportunity to fashion an online persona such a tantalizing prospect. Most of us spent our high school careers...