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...have to admit to ex-colleagues from the Debate or Fencing team that their primary hobby is now “applying” would be too much. Harvard students love to comp. But they hate talking about it. And this is why the revelation of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg??s college application by 02138 Magazine seems like such a violation. His earnest, hand-written insistence that “Amidst a hectic week of work, fencing has always proven to be the perfect medium,” provokes a knowing grimace. “It is both...
...federal judge ruled against Facebook Inc. on Friday, denying two emergency motions to force 02138 magazine to take down documents regarding Mark E. Zuckerberg, the company’s founder. The documents—which included Zuckerberg??s Harvard College application, his personal diary, and an e-mail he wrote to the College’s Administrative Board—are evidence in an ongoing court battle between Facebook and ConnectU, a social networking site founded by Harvard students who employed Zuckerberg before he went on to found Facebook. The ConnectU founders allege that Zuckerberg, formerly...
...avant-garde works of art.” Besides describing the site’s users, “The Facebook Book” also recounts tales and urban legends surrounding the site’s founding. Lushing’s favorite story details that Zuckerberg??s original creation, a program called “Face Mash,” which collected pictures of students and allowed others to rate them as “hot or not.” But when administrators discovered the site, Zuckerberg was asked to change the premise to something more appropriate...
...which Facebook has revolutionized the college experience, I can’t help but wonder if this toddler-aged creation is a modern-day version of Frankenstein’s monster. Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale about scientific experimentation gone awry may appear to be incompatible with Zuckerberg??s baby, but I’m realizing the real postmodern Prometheus is now a top-ten global website with repercussions far greater than drunken pokes...
...free flow of information, checked by individual privacy controls, grants us a wider array of choices and makes us better off. But at least in Zuckerberg??s current implementation, it also means we lose a choice. We can’t say “I’d rather not have this information.” We can’t say stop...