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Jessica has a boyfriend

8 12 2006

If you don’t know about the Facebook, an online community in which 90% of the college student in the US participate, start here.

The Facebook has an alert feature which tells everyone in the community every time one of their friends uploads a photo, responds to an ad, writes a comment on a friend’s page, sneezes, etc. Facebook just told me that my friend Jessica is now in a relationship.

And, upon looking closer, she posted this relationship at 4:34 am.

Interesting….

I wonder if she and her new boyfriend formally discussed being in a relationship together before posting it?

What if he had no idea?

What if his frat subscribes to Facebook news feed on their mobile phone and received an alert at 5 am that their frat brother is now in a relationship.

Can you imagine the scene…the newly made boyfriend walks into a frat house, which erupts at 5 am teasing him about the relationship he formed twenty minutes prior.

News travels fast on Facebook.
The way it’s travels is changing how much we know…but not what we want to know about

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Date : 8 December 2006
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2 responses to “Jessica has a boyfriend”

9 12 2006: Drew (11:00:00) :

Hi Zach - This is Drew, we met a couple weeks ago at Berkman. Great posts, thinking this is a site you’d find interesting:

http://www.wefeelfine.org/mission.html
9 12 2006: Taylor (14:14:00) :

Actually, when you add somebody as “in a relationship” with you, it sends a message to that person, and doesn’t show up on anybody’s profile until they click “yes”.