Facebook 2.0

Tracy Mitrano

Tracy Mitrano is the Director of Information
Technology Policy and Computer Policy and Law Programs at Cornell
University. Comments on this article can be sent to the author at tbm3@cornell.edu and/or can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page.

In March 2006, the Cornell University associate registrar called me
and asked, “What are you going to do about Facebook?” I laughed,
somewhat impolitely, at the thought that I could do anything at all
about a dot-com, but later I came to understand what she wanted. Tales
of embarrassing exposure, both for students and for higher education
institutions, were causing genuine concern among administrators, who
wanted to inform students of the pitfalls that they might experience in
using this new, explosive Internet application. A few weeks later, on a
typically dreary, rainy Saturday in central New York, I wrote “Thoughts
on Facebook."

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