Facebook: Now you can add friends in high school...

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It has been a good school year for us. In September, we added more than 1,000 colleges and 20,000 high schools to Facebook. After that, Facebook became the seventh most visited site on the Internet. A couple of months later, we added photos. Now, we get about 1.5 million new photos each day.

Starting today, we are going to let people in college and high school be friends. We decided to do this because so many people requested it, and we think it will help people keep up with more of their friends.

So now, if you're in college and you do a global search for someone in high school, that person will show up in the search results and you will be able to add them as a friend. You can still only see someone's profile if they are your friend or at your school, but now you can see the profiles of your friends in high school too.

Over the next couple of months we are going to make it easier to find and keep up with friends, even after they graduate. Stay tuned.

Mark
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What does GAF think of this?
 
pnjtony said:
is it really that much different from MySpace?
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They have yet to add the feared "customized" home page with the annoying backgrounds and music that slows down load time, so I am definatly happy about that.
 
I abhor MySpace, but I've found Facebook to be a pretty great utility for getting to know someone. It's sort of a social cheat sheet.
 
Anyone can join myspcae. It's not the same with facebook. I don't know about the high school version, but to join the college facebook, you need a college email address.
 
Hopefully it won't be swarmed with the emo kids now. Also, I've been meaning to ask, does anyone else have trouble loading Facebook with Firefox? Firefox just doesn't load certain webpages for me sometimes, but just hangs, especially with Yahoo mail and Facebook. it's pretty annoying.
 
I've never had a problem loading Facebook on Firefox or Opera. I like Facebook, decent, simple interface and it lets you network with people in your classes.
 
10 years from now VH1 will have a "THOSE WERE THE 2000's" show and online social networks will be one of the centerpieces.
 
Joe said:
10 years from now VH1 will have a "THOSE WERE THE 2000's" show and online social networks will be one of the centerpieces.
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YUP!!

That's what I always say to myself.
 
Beezy said:
Anyone can join myspcae. It's not the same with facebook. I don't know about the high school version, but to join the college facebook, you need a college email address.
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I'm on the HS version, you do need a school email address. You can still use a fake name (ex: there's a Severus Snape at my school) but the email has to be legit.
 
el jacko said:
I'm on the HS version, you do need a school email address. You can still use a fake name (ex: there's a Severus Snape at my school) but the email has to be legit.
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You can use a regular email if you sign up for high school but you can't get on to any of the college sites :(
 
el jacko said:
I'm on the HS version, you do need a school email address. You can still use a fake name (ex: there's a Severus Snape at my school) but the email has to be legit.
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A school email address?? WTF? What about the poor ass inner-city high schools like the one I went to? :(
 
MIMIC said:
A school email address?? WTF? What about the poor ass inner-city high schools like the one I went to? :(
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Yeah I wonder if my high school has email addys now. They sure as hell didn't when I went there.
 
MadraptorMan said:
Oh okay add high schools, but still no community colleges! Thanks a lot! :lol
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They've added alot of community colleges actually...

As for intergrating it with the high school facebook, it strips away another layer of "eliteness" from the system. Not that I care all that much, but facebook was originally designed to keep people at some of the top schools in touch and help them to garner connections for post college life. Obviously, as it expanded and grew to include more and more schools, that gradually began to fade, and it became more about keeping tabs on people. Incorperating high school students into the college system just completes the transition to becoming a rather generic "social site".
 
So where can I start looking for high school people?

They say do a global search, but I've no way of knowing who to begin with.
 
cvxfreak said:
So where can I start looking for high school people?

They say do a global search, but I've no way of knowing who to begin with.
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If you remember the person's name, you can just search for it in the global search. That's the only way that it seems to work for me.
 
f_elz said:
myspace seems better. i can't join facebook, no school email address, and you need an invitation. wtf.
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That's why I hate myspace and love facebook, by having at least some standards facebook doesn't turn into the random whorehouse that is myspace.
 
Incidently, you can always click the "add a school" button if you want to get in. In the last month, theyve added 2 unis in Mexico, and like 10 in england, so I guess the button works...
 
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