Facebook is Shutting Down Its College Student-only Social Network, Campus

Facebook attempted a return to its roots as a college-focused social network with the fall 2020 launch of Campus, a private section within Facebook that was only open to those with an @.edu email address. However, the initiative didn't succeed, as Facebook is now alerting users that Campus will fully shut down on March 10. From a report: Through an in-app message, Facebook is informing users that its Campus pilot will close down and that Campus profiles, groups, posts and other data will be deleted. Ahead of its shutdown, users will be able to view their data and download it using an export tool, the message noted. "Since we launched the Campus pilot, it's been our mission to help bring college communities closer together. But we've learned that the best way to support students is through Facebook Groups," the message explains.

To each generation

[fermion]

There is a favorite store, communication, music. It makes no sense but to survive you have to last long enough to become retro. When everyone forgets how horrible it really was. Like the Beatles.

as Facebook users aged, Facebook became the portal for parents, not adolescents. Parents who want to protect their kids from it.

They know

[rsilvergun]

That's why they buy all their competitors. Joe Biden has put a few trust busters in charge of regulations and they've already changed the rules making it harder for Facebook to do this. But this isn't the first time Facebook has seen the writing on the wall.

I suspect what they're doing right now is relying on the fact that they're so large nobody's seriously trying to compete with them. Eventually something entirely new that appeals to the kiddies will show up in blind side them and everybody else. The

Great

[ickleberry]

Hopefully he will shut down the normal Facebook as well soon. Will be great to see it gone !

Lol at getting back to "Facebook's roots"

[Babel-17]

"Zuckerberg built a website called "Facemash" in 2003 while attending Harvard University. The site was comparable to Hot or Not and used "photos compiled from the online face books of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the "hotter" person"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

He'd be pilloried today for exposing that attitude, and line of thinking.