The Many Faces of The Facebook

I noticed recently that Facebook has changed their tagline and it seems awfully like a ripped CNN headline from a story about Twitter. I quickly reminisced about the good ole’ days of thefacebook.com

With the help of the way back machine and Chris Messina’s Flickr page I put together this montage.

• Thefacebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges [Harvard only][2004]
• Thefacebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges [Limited to your own College or University][2004]
• The Facebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at schools [Now there are two Facebooks: one for people in college and one for people in high school] [2005]
• Facebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at schools [2006]
• Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you [Facebook is made up of lots of separate networks - things like schools, companies, and regions] [2006]
• Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you. [upload photos or publish notes - get the latest news from your friends - post videos on your profile - tag your friends - use privacy settings to control who sees your info - join a network to see people who live, study, or work around you] [2007]
• Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you. [Use Facebook to… keep up with friends and family, share photos and videos, control privacy online , reconnect with old classmates] [2008]
• Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. [2008]
• Facebook gives people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.[2009]

Which one was your favorite?