I Was on Facebook First

Lucy Malcolm and I made a bet earlier today – she claimed that Wesllesley (all girls school in the woods) was on Facebook before Boston University (Martin Luther King’s and my alma mater). She also stated that she has been a member of the network since December of 2003. I claimed that BU was among the first 8 schools in the network after Harvard and that Wesllesley came into the network after the first 8.

Results:

thefacebook in April 2004

http://web.archive.org/web/20040403161717/http://www.thefacebook.com/

thefacebook in May 2004

http://web.archive.org/web/20040520144727/http://thefacebook.com/

I was on Facebook at least 1 month before Lucy AND it is clearly impossible for her to have been on Facebook in December of 2003, as she has proudly been claiming since we met. She now owes me $100.