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The '''CUCommunity-Facebook War''' was a conflict waged between active members of Columbia social network [[CUCommunity]] and an inferior [[Facebook|personal profile website]] founded by a student at [[Harvard|an inferior 'peer' school]]. The records of the 'war', such as it was, consist largely of calls to arms and action by Columbia students on CUCommunity (CUCom featured journals and comments long before Facebook had 'notes' and any sort of interactivity), which unfortunately have been lost to time, and long-forgotten reporting by the ''[[Spectator]]'' and ''Harvard Crimson''.
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The '''CUCommunity-Facebook War''' was a conflict waged in March 2004 between active members of Columbia social network [[CUCommunity]] and an inferior [[Facebook|personal profile website]] founded by a student at an [[Harvard|inferior 'peer' school]]. The records of the 'war', such as it was, consist largely of calls to arms and action by Columbia students on CUCommunity (CUCom featured journals and comments long before Facebook had 'notes', 'comments' or any sort of interactivity), which unfortunately have been lost to time, and long-forgotten reporting by the ''[[Spectator]]'' and ''Harvard Crimson''.
  
 
== Google-bombing campaign ==
 
== Google-bombing campaign ==
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The key feature the war was an attempt by [[Cody Hess]] to [[w:Google-bomb|Google-bomb]] a number of sites, including associting thefacebook.com with the search “CUcommunity ripoff”, harvard.edu with “worthless safety school”, columbiaspectator.com with “worthless rag newspaper”. Hess was interviewed by the Harvard Crimson during this episode and explained that "It’s important for people at Columbia to know that they’re better than people at other colleges." Hess's attempts met limited success and ultimately led to his own website's search-ranking being significantly dropped by Google, or as he called it "Google-murdered."
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The key feature the war was an attempt by [[Cody Hess]] to [[w:Google-bomb|Google-bomb]] a number of sites, including associating thefacebook.com with the search “CUcommunity ripoff”, harvard.edu with “worthless safety school”, columbiaspectator.com with “worthless rag newspaper”. Hess was interviewed by the Harvard Crimson during this episode and explained that "[i]t’s important for people at Columbia to know that they’re better than people at other colleges." Hess's attempts met limited success and ultimately led to his own website's search-ranking being significantly dropped by Google, or as he called it "Google-murdered."
  
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The short-lived fight with Facebook also led to a feud between CUCommunity users and the ''Spectator'', which CUCom users felt was ignoring CUCommunity, and then promoting Facebook at CUCommunity's expense.
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The short-lived fight with Facebook also led to a feud between CUCommunity users and the ''Spectator'', which CUCom users felt ignored CUCommunity, and then promoted Facebook at CUCommunity's expense.
  
 
== Timeline of events ==
 
== Timeline of events ==
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Latest revision as of 02:56, 6 April 2014

The CUCommunity-Facebook War was a conflict waged in March 2004 between active members of Columbia social network CUCommunity and an inferior personal profile website founded by a student at an inferior 'peer' school. The records of the 'war', such as it was, consist largely of calls to arms and action by Columbia students on CUCommunity (CUCom featured journals and comments long before Facebook had 'notes', 'comments' or any sort of interactivity), which unfortunately have been lost to time, and long-forgotten reporting by the Spectator and Harvard Crimson.

Google-bombing campaign

The key feature the war was an attempt by Cody Hess to Google-bomb a number of sites, including associating thefacebook.com with the search “CUcommunity ripoff”, harvard.edu with “worthless safety school”, columbiaspectator.com with “worthless rag newspaper”. Hess was interviewed by the Harvard Crimson during this episode and explained that "[i]t’s important for people at Columbia to know that they’re better than people at other colleges." Hess's attempts met limited success and ultimately led to his own website's search-ranking being significantly dropped by Google, or as he called it "Google-murdered."

The short-lived fight with Facebook also led to a feud between CUCommunity users and the Spectator, which CUCom users felt ignored CUCommunity, and then promoted Facebook at CUCommunity's expense.

Timeline of events

Major events in bold

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