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Once the exclusive online stomping grounds of college students, social networking site Facebook.com is throwing open the doors to rest of the world. The site is slated to announce in coming weeks that anyone can gain access to the site, simply by affiliating themselves with a particular city or region.
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<p>RIP facebook</p>
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<p>poopy.</p>
<p>F%&^ Facebook.</p>
<p>How money hungry and greedy is Zuckerberg, anyway?</p>
<p>:( seriously, this is pathetic. i knew it was the beginning of mysfacebook when hs facebook was made and didn't need a legit email to sign up. damn you zuckerberg, you ruined this for everyone.</p>
<p>oh well, it's back to myspace now. at least you know upfront that everyone can see your profile.</p>
<p>I dont' like this one bit.</p>
<p>I would imagine that the default privacy setting will still limit profile viewing to those at your school, or friends of friends.</p>
<p>just because they can have profiles doesn't mean they can see yours.</p>
<p>They really *ucked up. Change facebook so its only open to college students. Facebook is becoming the new myspace.</p>
<p>what the hell...ugh...</p>
<p>but of course I'm still gonna be on there 24/7</p>
<p>yea, you can still limit who can see your facebook profile the same way... friends only or networks + friends</p>
<p>still better than myspace... but meh. There's a note on the facebook front page about it now:
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Who can get on the site?
-College students with a .edu email address.
-High School students with an invitation or a school email address.
-People can register for a company using their work email address.
-In the future, people will be able to register for regions. But not yet.
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<p>What the hell?! ARGH! I hated the high school additions enough!</p>
<p>If you tinker with your privacy settings, you can eliminate yourself from search results.</p>
<p>Educate yourselves before drawing similarities between myspace and facebook. People from all over the world may be able to register, but they still will not be able to search for you, much less see your profile.</p>
<p>Who cares whether HS is a part of facebook? If you knew at all how to use facebook, and you do not like HS students using facebook, the mere fact that facebook supports them should not effect you. It is not effecting me. What? Do you not want them to read your profile? Well... quit whining and change your privacy settings.</p>
<p>These are really simple things, but people would rather complain than actually be disabused.</p>
<p>I think part of what made facebook so appealing to college students was that it was just for college students. Now that anyone can join, it really just feels like another MySpace with a little more privacy and a little more networking.</p>
<p>...says nspeds, who is not searchable, viewable to friends-of-friends, or, in any way, can be determined to have a Facebook account. :p</p>
<p>"I think part of what made facebook so appealing to college students was that it was just for college students. Now that anyone can join, it really just feels like another MySpace with a little more privacy and a little more networking."</p>
<p>ZING.</p>
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<p>Educate yourselves before drawing similarities between myspace and facebook. People from all over the world may be able to register, but they still will not be able to search for you, much less see your profile.
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<p>just for the record, on myspace you can make your profile only viewable to friends. and you can also make it so that people can't even attempt to friend you unless they know your last name and email address, which they have to give when they try an click add friend. and searching for people on myspace is a lot harder than on facebook simiply because very little use their real names and can use whatever email. </p>
<p>just though i'd say that to be fair....</p>
<p>i still prefer facebook though</p>
<p>This is an awesome opportunity for someone to start a new on line college web site with all the good stuff of the old facebook. I'd switch.</p>
<p>I second the previous post. :)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.collegehotlist.com/ref/1348%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegehotlist.com/ref/1348</a> i got a message from them on facebook...i haven't visited it but supposedly its something like facebook..where stuff isnt limited to the web, stuff that can happen outside of the internet. I know that sounded confusing but hopefully you get the point.</p>
<p>the just launched it today so dont be surprised if no one really is on it.</p>
<p>I'm not worried about Facebook becoming Myspace. I would urge the Facebook team to use caution, as they're stepping closer and closer to the line--first high school facebook, then combining the two, then newsfeed, now open regional networks.</p>
<p>However, the fact remains that YOU control who sees your profile. You don't have to join a network if you don't want to, and you don't have to be friends with someone if you don't want to.</p>
<p>And in any case, I think Facebook will always be first and foremost a college, and high school to a slightly lesser degree, phenomenon.</p>