I've been on Facebook for quite a while. I can't recall exactly how long, but I was told about the site back when it still required an email address ending in .EDU to join. As I no longer have access to the email address I signed up with so many years ago, and as far as I know there is NO way to determine how OLD your Facebook account is - I just know it's been quite a while, but I'm not sure exactly how long.
(If anyone can help out with the whole age of your Facebook account question, I'd appreciate it!)
A lot about Facebook has changed since I first joined. When I first created my account, I rarely used it. As more of my co-workers got connected, then friends, back when they opened it up to anyone, I used it a bit more. Then, at least for me, my family and friends, around 2006-2007 or so, it just exploded. Suddenly everyone was on, sharing every thing they could about their life, their work, their family, etc.
Facebook has a somewhat controversial history of privacy matters for its users. Some of this can be blamed on users not understanding how certain things in their Profiles are shared, how their activities on Facebook (liking, commenting, etc.) are tracked, and so on; and much can be blamed on Facebook itself for not always explaining these things very well, and making it very difficult to control these privacy settings.
I started this blog to not just cover Privacy on Facebook, but rather general tips for people and businesses to get the most from what is now (June 2011, future reader) a social network with over 600 MILLION users, if you can believe that. Who knows, by the time some of you read this, it may be over a BILLION, or maybe Facebook will have been bought by some other company.
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