Facebook Helps Find Friends for Social Media Losers
Jessica Marcel — October 31, 2009 — Tech
References: crunchbase & techcrunch
If you were the unpopular kid in school, you know the humiliation that goes along with adults suggesting another kid hang out with you. Now, Facebook has taken the humiliating habit online. If someone has only a few friends or rarely gets something on their wall, Facebook helps find friends for all you losers.
On the pages of the few friends you do have, Facebook is adding messages like ‘Help them make new friends!’ ‘Write on their wall!’ and other similarly embarrassing (and completely unwanted) stuff. Anyone else think Facebook needs to mind its own business?
On the pages of the few friends you do have, Facebook is adding messages like ‘Help them make new friends!’ ‘Write on their wall!’ and other similarly embarrassing (and completely unwanted) stuff. Anyone else think Facebook needs to mind its own business?
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