I wasn't inconvenienced by it, but I remember myself and everyone at Dartmouth receiving a single email inviting us to join Facebook at the same time somewhere in the early winter of 2004. It wasn't a viral action like "your friend has added you", but was instead a direct invitation to sign up. I remember my roommates and I all immediately signed up and wasted the first of many hours on there.
I think the email was from another Dartmouth student, so I assume they just paid someone to send the entire campus an email.
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Who did Instagram spam? Would you rather have been Instagram or Path?
Who did Facebook spam? Would you rather be Facebook or Instagram?
I don't have a strong opinion on this topic, just pointing out a flaw in your logic.
Who did Facebook spam?
I don't know the history, but the social network movie highlighted the spamming of his college network through email.
I wasn't inconvenienced by it, but I remember myself and everyone at Dartmouth receiving a single email inviting us to join Facebook at the same time somewhere in the early winter of 2004. It wasn't a viral action like "your friend has added you", but was instead a direct invitation to sign up. I remember my roommates and I all immediately signed up and wasted the first of many hours on there.
I think the email was from another Dartmouth student, so I assume they just paid someone to send the entire campus an email.