UW-Madison senior Jamie Schneider will never again forget a friend’s birthday.
And with one click of the mouse, she can look up the cute guy in her communication arts class to see if he is “single,” “in a relationship” or if “it’s complicated.” She can reconnect with friends from high school, or even her childhood best friend who moved away.
She can do all this and more thanks to Facebook, an online social-networking phenomenon allowing college students everywhere to make new friends and keep the old ones.