What is #Facebook FOR, Anyway? @Facebook @FacebookAppDev @FacebookAppss @Facebook_UK @FacebookAppsJP #Face

The name comes from 'a book put out by Harvard University (and lots of other schools, I imagine) with labeled pictures of all the students so that one could put names to the faces one sees on campus.'

(And that's pretty-much what Zuckerberg & co. started it-as: back when The Internet was 'just catching-on,' they figured it would be a good idea to have 'an online version' of The Facebook.)

That idea first spread to other schools (I remember that I had to be a student in order to have a profile on Facebook), then to other community-groups ...

Now I regularly get 'friend-requests' from profiles that don't even have a School (Past- & Current-), Employment (Past- & Current-), Hometown, Current Residence!

If 'Facebook' still exists "so people know your name when they see you in real life," but there isn't a place where they will see you in real life; why does Facebook even allow you to have a profile there?

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The name "Facebook" is obviously the compound of the words "Book" & "Face." 

The word “Face” carries the scent of “Appearance, Form, Figure, Visage, Countenance (Form Imposed on something)” (to Make, Set, Put).

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The 'disillusioned youth' in me of-course "knows" that Facebook allows such 'accounts' because "it's all profit from the advertising."

But "the hope in my heart" knows that it's probably more like 'Facebook's pledge to uphold the human rights of Greed, Pride and Gluttony (with at-least 4 others)'