Thu. 09/10 – “Campus” Is Facebook, But For College Kids (Insert Joke Here)
Tech Brew Ride Home
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🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Thursday, September 10th, 2020. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Facebook goes back to its roots by going back to school |
| 0:12.1 | with campus, the long-term stock |
| 0:14.4 | exchange is ready for its close-up. The former head of the NSA is |
| 0:17.7 | joining Amazon's board. The second-generation Motorola Razor is here and an |
| 0:22.3 | in-depth review and assessment of whether or not |
| 0:24.6 | Microsoft Surface Duo knows what it wants to be. |
| 0:28.0 | Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Remember how Facebook launched as a social network only for college students? You had to have a |
| 0:39.2 | dot-ed-ed-U email address even to sign up originally and each Facebook was originally |
| 0:45.2 | restricted to a given school. You couldn't even friend someone from a school on the |
| 0:49.2 | other side of the country. Well it's back to the future for Facebook in a way because it is piloting what it is calling |
| 0:55.9 | campus, a section of the Facebook app specifically designed for college students to interact |
| 1:01.5 | with peers at their school. It's launching at 30 universities. designed for |
| 1:03.2 | now, it's launching at 30 universities in the US for now, |
| 1:06.8 | quoting the verge. |
| 1:08.0 | Campus is designed to be a place where students can interact only |
| 1:11.2 | with peers at their school. |
| 1:12.8 | They can access a campus only news feed and join groups, events, |
| 1:16.6 | and group chat rooms called campus chats |
| 1:19.3 | pertaining to campus life. |
| 1:20.9 | In a nod to the original Facebook, they'll even have access to a campus directory where they can find and friend other students. |
| 1:27.0 | In order to access campus students have to provide their and cover photos will follow them to campus. They'll also have the option to add or remove |
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