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sausagefeet
on Nov 22, 2010
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Facebook Messages: The Worst Thing That Ever Happe...
But it used to be that only people in a whitelist of schools could be on facebook, which was a pretty small number of people.
natrius
on Nov 22, 2010
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Photos came out in 2005, I think. Plenty of schools were on Facebook at that point.
sausagefeet
on Nov 22, 2010
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"everyone at your school" and "everyone" are different by a few orders of magnitude.
natrius
on Nov 22, 2010
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In the context of job applications, it's not different at all. It's not hard to find someone who went to a given school and will look someone up for you. It was commonplace back when school networks were meaningful on Facebook.
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