I Was on Facebook First
Lucy Malcolm and I made a bet earlier today - she claimed that Wesllesley (all girls school in the woods) was on Facebook before Boston University (Martin Luther King’s and my alma mater). She also stated that she has been a member of the network since December of 2003. I claimed that BU was among the first 8 schools in the network after Harvard and that Wesllesley came into the network after the first 8.
Results:
thefacebook in April 2004
http://web.archive.org/web/20040403161717/http://www.thefacebook.com/
thefacebook in May 2004
http://web.archive.org/web/20040520144727/http://thefacebook.com/
I was on Facebook at least 1 month before Lucy AND it is clearly impossible for her to have been on Facebook in December of 2003, as she has proudly been claiming since we met. She now owes me $100.
9. July 2008 at 7:02 pm :
At least, my all girls school in the woods (that Hilary Clinton, Madeline Albright, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek call their alma mater), which, by the way, is the 4th best college in the nation (where is BU on the uni list - scroll way down to 57), taught me to spell. It’s WELLESLEY!
26. July 2008 at 11:10 pm :
Madeline Albright, Hillary Clinton and Madame Chiang Kai-shek weren’t on Facebook before I was. You know why?
27. July 2008 at 3:17 pm :
I was on collegeclub.com (now defunct) 10 years ago in 1998. They had community, groups, messaging, you could even call an 800 # and get VM and have your email read to you over the phone.
Do I win a prize???
29. July 2008 at 5:20 pm :
AcmePhoto - You win the Social Media Guy Commenter of the Week Award!!! Congratulations.
3. August 2008 at 12:12 am :
Tahnks for posting