Open Book

It wasn’t too long ago that Facebook was the place to go when you were tired of the noisy, ad-laden social networking found elsewhere on the web, most notably the platform’s biggest competitor, MySpace. Facebook was meant to be…well, a facebook—a place where students from a college could interact with and get to know one another. But in the age of venture capitalism and billion-dollar site acquisitions, it was only a matter of time before Facebook turned itself into a moneymaking juggernaut, disregarding the very intentions under which the site was first created.

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