Facebook has proven to be an interesting toy. I don’t buy all the hype, but it is certainly an interesting idea. As such, I’ve tried to use it in a spartan manner, putting in basic and mostly public information, seeing what happens. One thing that annoys me already is sort of a bitchy complaint, but..
I graduated from college long before Facebook crept into whoever created it’s mind (yes, those people are likely much, much younger than I want to believe). But, as such, my university email address, which, I might add, was on a VAX system, is no longer available to me. Which means I can’t join the networks for the colleges I attended since joining requires a valid .edu address at those institutions.
I don’t have a solution beyond allowing people to join a school network without a .edu address at that school if they indicate their graduation date pre-dates the existance of Facebook. And, yes, that’s a piss-poor solution because it basically throws open the door to spammers. But, there has to be a way around this. Anyone?