The interview is about Jackson’s observations of how his classmates at Yale are using social networking websites. They use Facebook to get to know each other and Yale’s admitted student website to get to know Yale:
Everyone considered Facebook for more or less the same reason-it’s our natural inclination, since social networking sites are now just another part of our social spheres and online presence. Contact information was found on facebook and on the Yale site and more than a few private AIM conversations were had, but the Yale”??official AIM chatroom’ apparently was not very much used. Facebook was the default because it was the common”??language.’ If everyone is already logged into Facebook because they log on frequently, it is much simpler to navigate to the Yale group and check for activity than it is to log on to the Yale admitted site, which has an admittedly less familiar (and somewhat clunkier) interface.
Michael Stoner Co-Founder and Co-Owner Was I born a skeptic or did I become one as I watched the hypestorm gather during the dotcom years, recede, and congeal once more as we come to terms with our online, social, mobile world? Whatever. I'm not much interested in cutting edge but what actually works for real people in the real world. Does that make me a bad person?