Facebook Returns To Its Roots With Campus, a College Student-only Social Network (techcrunch.com) 29
Facebook is getting back to its roots as a college-focused social network. The company announced today the launch of a new social networking platform, Facebook Campus, which offers college students a private place to connect with classmates, join groups, discover upcoming campus events, get updates from their school's administration and chat with other students from their dorm, clubs or any other campus group. From a report: The new platform requires a school email address (@.edu) to join and will live within a dedicated section of the Facebook app. It will be accessible from a tab at the bottom of the screen or from the "More" menu alongside sections like Watch, Dating, Gaming, News, Marketplace and others. "We wanted to create a product where it was easy for classmates to meet each other, foster new relationships and also easily start conversations," explains Facebook Campus Product Manager Charmaine Hung. "And we really think that Campus is more relevant than ever right now. With COVID-19, we see that many students aren't returning to campus in the fall. Now, classes are being held online and students are trying to react to this new normal of what it's like to connect to clubs and organizations that you care about, when you're not together," she added.
Well this will be a desert (Score:2)
"Private" (Score:1)
They left long ago (Score:2)
...and they won't come back.
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Root of all evil. Returning to it. Actually, never left.
Fake account problem... (Score:3)
I'm guessing that this is one of Facebook's strategies to tackle the fake account problem, i.e. an email address connected to an educational institution that's more likely to be an actual human user rather than a bot/fake account created with a random Gmail or other free anonymous web mail account.
Facebook want to show their clients that there may still be some actual humans that aren't working for marketing agencies & criminal gangs, & college & university student emails are one way of doing this. I expect they may do something similar (if they haven't already) with company/corporate emails, although that'll be more difficult to verify en masse. It'd show Facebook's clients that there are some people on their platform for whom PR, marketing, advertising, & political manipulation campaigns might actually work.
This is what Facebook's all about, right?
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Surely there is real people behind the eatmyshorts@simpsons.com and bitemyshinymetalass@futurama.com email adresses?
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If so, it's doomed to fail. In 1–4 years, they'll lose their .edu addresses, and then they'll have to switch to the real Facebook, and most of them won't bother, because they'll think it's all bots. Also,
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Facebook is irredeemable. Just another attempt to spin its worthless existence as somehow not worthless.
what about aos@my.academy ?? (Score:2)
Is restricting it to .edu not rather stupid?
Re:Easier to maintain closed views. (Score:4, Informative)
Have you attended a college campus? Or are you just rehashing points spewed to you by some right wing radio disc jockey?
I go to school currently. There are Trump flags and right wing groups just as prevalent here as any other place. They caused a stir a while ago by having a raffle for the lower portion of an AR-15.
Close minded? There are people trying to scream about their views there as they are any other place. And of course those who usually get called out for their ideas being nonsense can't handle being called out. They instead start to victim blame and claim to be silenced or oppressed.
Keep trying to spew your nonsense though. I am sure some people will buy it.
Colleges are becoming close-minded (Score:3)
Have you attended a college campus? Or are you just rehashing points spewed to you by some right wing radio disc jockey?
I go to school currently. There are Trump flags and right wing groups just as prevalent here as any other place. They caused a stir a while ago by having a raffle for the lower portion of an AR-15.
Close minded? There are people trying to scream about their views there as they are any other place. And of course those who usually get called out for their ideas being nonsense can't handle being called out. They instead start to victim blame and claim to be silenced or oppressed.
Keep trying to spew your nonsense though. I am sure some people will buy it.
A bunch of colleges have become newsworthy for doing exactly what the parent poster is suggesting. I don't know how rampant it is, but the high-end conservative speakers can no longer speak at college campuses and even some comedians are wary of doing so.
For example, Jordan Peterson has had fire alarms pulled during his campus speeches, and people were blaring airhorns [youtube.com] at close distances. Milo Yiannopolus frequently draws riots [wikipedia.org] during his scheduled appearances.
Brett Weinstein objected to his college's day o [wikipedia.org]
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Just make social media where you avoid family. (Score:3)
The problem is these sites have too many people who are not your friends join your group.
Your feed is filled from Mom and Dad posting fake news from idiot sources explaining how such and such political party is both completely incompetent to do the simplest thing, yet have the power and ability to micromanage everything they deemed wrong with the world.
You feed is filled from acquaintances from high school who you just friended to see what they are doing with their life to get filled with their latest drugged filled night. Baby Pictures of kids you will never meet nor do you care about.. Pictures from their Vacation, their new car... Whatever
More political rants most not very informative from both sides, including the side that I like.
I basically stay off the platform myself. But if it was designed like it suppose to be where only my real close friends had access and not feed from a friend of a friend and family polluting the feed has just made it fustrating.
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So your major complaint here is that when you friend people to see what they are doing with their lives, you have to.... see what they're doing with their lives?
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Really? Let's try it.
StellaNoob.internet(disconnect);
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weren't their real roots rating peoples looks? (Score:4, Informative)
i mean if they really want to go back all the way, to Facemash, wouldn't it be Mark Zuckerberg assigning numerical scores to people's attractiveness?
' The homepage proclaimed: “Were we let in for our looks? No. Will we be judged on them? Yes.” '
https://www.metro.us/everythin... [metro.us]
The Stupid Is Obvious in This One (Score:2)
Either that or once again Zuckmeister is showing off how he can fool most everyone most all of the time.
I graduated in 1977. I still have a MYNAME@MYCOLLEGE.edu email address. I suspect lots of colleges never set up a name@alumni.college.edu system and that plenty of folks have an 'edu' account right now.
Then again, imagine the improved targeted ads FB can throw at us once we admit to having attended a college.
can it really go back? (Score:2)
Harvard Connect (Score:2)
Winklevoss Twins already did it.
Translation: (Score:2)
"We wanted to create a product where it was easy for classmates to GIVE US THEIR INFORMATION"
FTFY
Another Facebook?! (Score:2)
Do you want twice as much spying? Because that's how you get twice as much spying.
Roots? (Score:3)
It's roots was as a site to judge the hotness of girls on campus. Something tells me they don't mean those roots, though. They probably like to pretend that didn't happen.