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A Tale of Friendship: Facebook Unveils ‘Friendship Pages’
Oct 29th
Popular social network Facebook has recently announced a new feature called ‘Friendship Pages’. The new pages will allow you to view a well presented overview of the interactions between you and a friend. Blogs have lauded the ‘human’ aspect of friendship pages which summarise wall posts, photos, events, mutual friendships, comments and ‘likes’ shared between two users. The potential for the highlighting of old and fond memories is huge and will help to cement the websites position as a ‘go-to’ social hub for not only current and future events and social interactions, but also for the snapshots it can provide of the past.
Some have criticised the ever more ‘intrusive’ nature of Facebook and the increasing complexity of its navigation. Will Friendship Pages exacerbate this problem? Or are they a great opportunity to increase the value and usefulness of social media? Tell us what you think in the comments section.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in The Simpsons
Oct 5th
In the episode, Lisa Simpson takes a friend to an entrepreneur expo to convince him to stay in school. She’s dismayed to find that everyone at the expo (except the janitor) dropped out college to found their companies, including Zuckerberg. Two other famous drop-out executives also appear in the scene: Bill Gates and Richard Branson.
Zuckerberg gets most of the screen time, and he appears again in a brief status update gag at the very end of the episode.
The timing of Zuckerberg’s cameo is likely no coincidence since the Aaron Sorkin-penned film The Social Network just hit theaters. It tells a story about the young, not-yet-dropped-out Zuckerberg’s attempts to get Facebook off the ground.
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