A new kind of post-party cleaning

An article, Picture Your Name Here in the New York Times Education supplement on Sunday (7/27/2008) by Lisa Guernsey talks about what many students do on Sundays--cleaning up their images on Facebook. This process involves finding and de-tagging their names from specific pictures of parties the previous night.

new face for facebook?

"No longer will Facebook consider itself merely another social network. Instead it is becoming a technology platform on which anyone can build applications for social computing." Fortune magazine writes...

By David Kirkpatrick, Fortune senior editor
May 25 2007

http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/24/technology/fastforward_facebook.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007052511

"The short version is that Facebook is taking its two major assets - its 24-million-members (growing at about 150,000 per day) and its strong technology underpinnings - and making them available to all comers.

"We want to make Facebook into something of an operating system so you can run full applications," Zuckerberg told me, saying it would be analogous to the platform that Microsoft Windows provides for developers."

Facebook as a reality on campus

Facebook: A campus fad becomes a campus fact
The social-networking website isn't growing like it once did, but only because almost every US student is already on it.
By Cristian Lupsa Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor

"Soon to enter its fourth year, Facebook has matured into a warehouse of school information, a big-time player in campus activism, and a mirror of university life - good and bad. More than 12 million users are signed up.

School officials, most of whom were either dismissive or unaware of the phenomenon, are now awake to it. They hold Facebook-themed conferences. They sign up themselves. They monitor students. And they worry about information in student profiles, especially after hearing that employers routinely check them."
Read more at: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1213/p13s01-legn.html

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