Go, have your fun, experiment, fuck around, push boundaries. Don't make profiles for me based on info you found, public or not, and then sign me up to receive notifications for messages on it without my permission.

Yeah, Facebook started in college, but it didn't start with scraped data and auto-generated profiles.

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kazinator 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I suppose it would be worse without the notifications, even though they are form of spam, because then you wouldn't know what some anonymous posters are writing under a purported profile of yours.

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tokai 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Facemash, Mark's pre-facebook project, was a page to vote on student attractiveness, with names and pictures of female students scraped from Harvard.

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kstrauser 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I will not hold my breath waiting for someone to defend him.

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jjulius 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ah, true, I forgot that bit. My bad. Still, though... oof.

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watwut 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And zuckenberg turned out to be an asshole later, creating products that cause harm and supporting Trump.

So, it all checks out.

	▲	kazinator 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For values of "later" equivalent to "at that point".