The Grand Irony Behind Facebook’s Decision To Invent Facebook All Over Again

  • Date: 11-Sep-2020
  • Source: Forbes
  • Sector:Education
  • Country:GCC
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The Grand Irony Behind Facebook’s Decision To Invent Facebook All Over Again

Mark Zuckerberg,at the Harvard University commencement in Cambridge, MA on May 25, 2017. (Photo by ... [+] David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)



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Over the last few weeks, millions of students returned to university campuses nationwide. Now Facebook has decided to do the same.

The social media company announced yesterday a new product aimed squarely at the dorm room crowd, a thing called Facebook Campus. It's a separate part of the app that you can only sign up for using a .edu address. It has its own feed, groups and calendar function. Content posted there doesn't appear on a user's main Facebook profile, and people can include things like majors, minors, classes and hometowns.

Among