>>998350

Facebook was originally only available at Harvard. The expanded to Stanford second. Over the next year or so Facebook added a couple of schools at a time and used the US News top 25 ranking. I went to one of these schools at the time and the expansion push was driven by the rich kids who all went to private schools and boarding schools together(I also attended one of these places). You had to have a .edu email address to register.

At the time, social media was dominated by myspace and Facebook was marketed as an exclusive/elite alternative. It worked extremely well.

>>998726

The Eric Schmidt rabbit hole is deep. His family has been on the inside of this shit since at least the late 19th century.

>>998776

Smart Phones really didn't exist at the time. Texting existed, but it was painful to use until the blackberry built a keyboard into the phone. The messaging social habit really started with AOL Messenger. Microsoft and Yahoo had less popular(in the US at least) competitors. There is a really narrow age group of people who were the right age to actively move through all of these adoption cycles. Older folks weren't really bouncing around between platforms as they came and went. If you were born between 1978 and 1985, you were very engaged with many of these early systems at some point.

>>998843

>>998842

Much love for our based black girls.

>>999037

During the democratic primaries before 2008, Stephenopolous called Obama out as manchurian. He went to Columbia at the same time and said on live TV something to the effect of "I have talked to a lot of my former classmates, and not a single one remembers even seeing him on campus or having a class with him"

>>999094

Forced interoperability with the Facebook platform would be an interesting way to regulate the company. Join Adbook for free or pay a nominal fee to join FreedomBook(owned by someone else).