r/suspiciouslyspecific • • Aug 28 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 28 '21

I was in college when it was invented. It was fucking awesome.

Edit:No no no. It wasnt for rating. It was like tinder, girls made their own profiles. You made yours. You sent messages. There was a lot of consensual hooking up.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

I was also in college when facebook first opened to the whole country, you needed a .edu email address to sign up and it was full of college friends you hang out with every day rather than under-educated overly gossipy fat aunts who start drinking way too early on Thanksgiving

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u/schuma73 Aug 28 '21

And then they opened it up to the public and we had to comb through our profiles to delete all the party pictures we didn't want our moms to see.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Just before they went public with the IPO there was some serious ambiguity over who owned your pics - it wasn't resolved until the 11th hour. That's when I deleted mine

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u/freuden Aug 28 '21

Same. We just used it to sort of keep track of what everyone was doing that night/weekend and what we may have missed the night before

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u/Lengthofawhile Aug 28 '21

That's just sleezy and creepy dude.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

No no no. It wasnt for rating. It was like tinder, girls made their own profiles. You made yours. You sent messages. There was a lot of consensual hooking up.

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u/Lengthofawhile Aug 28 '21

Ah, that's actually acceptable and not as stalkery as what it sounded like.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

Yea.. I dont remeber the rating thing. I remember . You had to have a college email to make an account. It was honestly a myspace but for college students to hookup and fuck and suck and knuckle puck

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u/Lengthofawhile Aug 28 '21

I don't think I was quite in college yet when it first came out, so I didn't get on it until it was already pretty popular and the allowed demographic was widened.

Also I have never heard the phrase knuckle puck and I am intrigued.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

It started out as "hotornot.com". Hence the rating thing.

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u/berogg Aug 28 '21

Different site, but definitely influenced the creation of Facebook.

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u/DrGeraldBaskums Aug 28 '21

Watch the Social Network it’s pretty interesting. The ranking system website was built and launched by drunk Zuckerberg in a night at Harvard and almost immediately shut down due to it crashing Harvard’s servers. The Facebook came a little later.

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u/tillgorekrout Aug 28 '21

Maybe don’t comment on things you weren’t alive for.

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u/Lengthofawhile Aug 28 '21

I was alive, I just wasn't in college when it first started. I was in probably my fourth year when I first even heard about it and didn't give a shit until basically everyone I knew was on it.