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Culture: Meet Facebook, the most popular online student community that parents and educators have never heard of | John Dawson

Late last year, Stuart Wilson met a girl at a wedding in Ft. Worth, Texas. When Mr. Wilson, a recent college graduate, returned to Ft. Worth for Christmas he planned on giving the girl a call and asking her out for a date. This might have been a love story, if not for a website known as Facebook.

One of Mr. Wilson's friends suggested he check out the girl, a Texas A&M student, on Facebook, an online networking website created for college and high-school students. Armed with a login and password from a friend, Mr. Wilson quickly found his potential date's profile. "The first thing I noticed was that there were 47 pictures of her linked to her profile," he said. After checking out photos of her with her sorority sisters, at football games, and at camp, he checked out what she listed as her interests.

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