Facebook launches college-only platform, 15 years after it began admitting non-college users

Students must have .edu address to join, as was the case in 2004.

Facebook gave a nod to its college roots this week by launching a platform dubbed "Campus," one that—like the original Facebook upon its launch—is only open to college students. The company announced the feature on Thursday, what it described as a "college-only space designed to help students connect with fellow classmates over shared interests." "In the early days, Facebook was a college-only network," the company wrote, "and now we’re returning to our roots with Facebook Campus to help students make and maintain [campus] relationships."

When it first launched in 2004, Facebook—begun by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg—admitted only college students. Users were required to provide a ".edu" email address in order to create a profile and begin posting on the site. Late in 2005 the company began allowing high school students onto the site, though the younger users had to be invited by college-aged members. By late 2006, everyone 13 years and older with a valid email address was permitted on the site. Facebook said it will offer Campus users news feeds specific to their college, as well as campus directories and chat rooms for entire campuses as well as specific dorms.

https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/15-years-after-it-began-admitting-non-college-users-facebook-launches-college#article

Introducing Facebook Campus

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/09/introducing-facebook-campus/

Nearly 20 black families buy 100 acres of land in Georgia to create 'safe haven for people of color'

Planners envision agricultural and commercial community designed by and for black Americans.

Nearly 20 black families have purchased about 100 acres of land in rural Georgia in the hopes of starting a thriving community there built by, and largely for, black Americans. The project, called the Freedom Georgia Initiative, aims to "develop [the] vast resource-rich 96.71 acres of land in Toomsboro, GA for the establishment of an innovative community for environmentally sustainable-living, health & wellness, agricultural & economic development, arts & culture for generations to come." "Our aim is to be a premier recreational, educational, and cultural destination for Black families across the African diaspora," the project's website states.

The initiative is not entirely exclusive to black families—on its website the group "pledges to create a thriving safe haven for black families and our allies"—though the project appears largely intended for nonwhite individuals: "I'm hoping that it will be a thriving safe haven for people of color, for Black families in particular," one of the initiative's founders, Ashley Scott, told CNN this week. Still, "we don't intend for it to be exclusively Black," she said, "but we do intend for it to be pro Black in every way." The project is still in its early phases, with no permanent structures appearing to have been built on the land as of yet. The group has so far raised about half of an $88,000 goal on GoFundMe meant to "bring amenities to [the] newly acquired land" for ongoing events there.

https://justthenews.com/nation/nearly-20-black-families-buy-100-acres-land-georgia-create-safe-haven-people-color#article

Gofundme

https://www.gofundme.com/f/building-a-thriving-black-safe-haven

19 families buy nearly 97 acres of land in Georgia to create a city safe for Black people

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/us/freedom-black-cooperative-toomsboro/index.html

The Freedom Georgia Initiative

http://thefreedomgeorgiainitiative.com/

Something doesn't add up here..other than one individual Ashley Scott being named as the front person for this purchase, there is no mention of the other 19 families.. Dig on Ashley Scott?