Educational Technology

September 5, 2010

College-Only Social Network Debuts in the Ivy League

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:30 am

By Sophia Li, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Josh Weinstein, a 2009 graduate of Princeton University, remembers waiting eagerly for his official college e-mail address the summer before freshman year. An address ending in .edu would give him access to Facebook, an online social network that only college students could join. Oh, how times have changed. Everyone and their mothers, and fathers, are on Facebook. But Mr. Weinstein hasn’t given up hope: He’s created a Web site where students can post messages, pictures, and events away from the prying eyes of parents and professors. The site, CollegeOnly, went up on Wednesday, and right now students from Cornell, Princeton, and Yale Universities can sign up.

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/College-Only-Social-Network/26519/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

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