- See also Wikipedia's article about "Facebook".
Facebook, originally founded as The Facebook, is essentially 'procrastination central'. The site was started by a Harvard student, just for us Ivy League brats. Sadly, it's now been opened up to any and every member of the unwashed hoi polloi.
Facebook launched at Harvard on February 4th, 2004. Columbia was added to the list of schools on February 25th, followed by:
- Stanford on February 26th
- Yale on March 1st
- Dartmouth and Cornell on March 7th
- the great unwashed masses
Columbians initially resisted the Harvard Friendster clone, with a vocal group preferring the more interactive CUCommunity. In fact, the spring of 2004 bore witness to the CUCommunity-Facebook War. However, following the massive influx of the Class of 2008 onto Facebook as soon as they got their UNIs, resistance collapsed and Columbia meekly assimilated into the Crimson beast. Subsequently, Facebook survived challenges from a number of competing sites, including CUCommunity's successor, CampusNetwork.
