The idea was to take an information directory and put it online and give students control over what information they wanted to share with each other.
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To clarify, we don't require students to ever give us their university password. All we require is that they simply use their school e-mail address to log into the site. We're an extremely secure site. I'm not sure what confidential information these universities think is spilling out.Chris Hughes
About two-thirds of our users log on to the site every single day, and most of the time multiple times daily.
Chris Hughes
Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard, had the idea in the winter of 2004. He started off with the idea of creating a universal online database for college students with social-networking functionality.He revamped the idea of the original college facebooks-the books of bad freshman-year ID photos and boring information-by putting them online and giving students the control over the information they wanted to share with others.
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They can decide exactly who they want to see their profile. The students themselves have complete control.
Chris Hughes
If students do not want the staff of their university to be able to see their profiles, they should alter their privacy settings so that they are only available to other students.
Chris Hughes
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