• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Facebook used to just be your class schedule, and you could see the names and school emails of others in your class.

    No profile pictures, no likes, not even friends.

    It was just a way to email someone from class you thought was cute over the pretext of meeting up to exchange notes. That was all anyone used it for, for like the first year.

    But Myspace and others already existed at that point, and it was always open to anyone. Only Facebook restricted it to people with .edu emails.

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      5 months ago

      Facebook absolutely had profile pictures when it was school only. Everyone rated who they would fuck with it.

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        5 months ago

        I was at one of the first three schools that had it when it rolled out.

        So maybe by the time it was open to any .edu address there was pictures?

        But when it first launched to those three schools, no one had pictures, you had to at least remember your crush’s name, not just pick them out of a lineup.

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            5 months ago

            It was literally 20 years ago… And I’m going off memory…

            I know it would have been less than a year before pictures and friends, because it was always a huge joke about how many friends someone had, especially with one of my roommates at the time.

            I think it went:

            Single profile pic

            Friends

            Wall

            Photo galleries

            Tagging people