Bridget Luddy is a junior politics major from Berlin, Conn., who went to Mercy High School. She is interested in having fun, shopping, “Desperate Housewives,” laying by the pool, and of course, “boyssss.” Her musical favorites are Mariah Carey, JayZ, Kanye West, Diddy, Gavin Degraw, Jack Johnson, James Blunt (is awesome!). She is also a secret Tina Turner fan. Her favorite movies are The Bodyguard, Clueless, Scarface and Rounders.

All this information and more is posted on Luddy’s profile page of Facebook.com where she has been a member since Sept. 18, 2005, just a few days after Saint Anselm was added to the network.

Created in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg in his dorm room at Harvard as a way to connect with other students on campus, Facebook has spread to campuses around the country. Schools are added to the network based on the number of requests by students.

More than 1,900 Saint Anselm users (mostly students, with a few faculty, staff and alumni) are now on Facebook.

Once students register (for free) they can create home pages, post information about themselves, create or join groups based on their interests, their majors, where they live or went to high school, post pictures and create photo albums, share thoughts and ideas, and keep in touch with classmates at Saint Anselm and friends at other schools. Plus they can browse through other people’s profiles.

And that, according to Luddy, is the biggest fascination, and possibly the biggest time waster with Facebook. “You can see what other people are interested in and you can look at their friends and see that they know some of the same people you know,” she says. “But it’s not a total waste of time. You can look up people in your classes if you need help or forget an assignment. A friend of mine even used it to look up people where he was job hunting.”

Luddy, who spends a couple of hours a week on Facebook, keeps in touch with high school classmates at other colleges, and has reconnected with some elementary school friends who went to other high schools. Her profile lists 89 Saint Anselm College friends, and friends at 58 other colleges and universities.
“I am careful not to let it get in the way of my school work, though I spend way too much time on it,” says Luddy. And, apparently so do many other students. According to Facebook spokesperson Chris Hughes, the network has more than 12.5 million unique users who visit the site each month. Sixty-seven percent of users log in each day for an average of 18 minutes.

“Just about everyone I know is on Facebook,” says Luddy. “It seems those who aren’t are refusing out of protest.”

Birds of a Feather Continued

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