Facebook Graduates: Now Do Something for the World

Yesterday marked Facebook’s four-year anniversary, or to look at it from the college perspective to which the site owes its success: Facebook graduated. Washington Post assistant editor Rachel Dry, who was a senior at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com from his college dorm room on Feb. 4, 2004, wrote a commencement address for The New Republic. In it, Dry wonders if Facebook is taking “on the big inequities,” as Bill Gates–like Zuckerberg, a famous Harvard dropout–urged in his commencement speech at the university last year. We wondered the same thing.

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