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		RichardPrice on May 22, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Academia.edu: looking for technical co-founder Facebook is primarily about social interaction - sharing photos from last night's party, listing what music you like etc. Academia.edu has an exclusively academic focus; it's about creating an academic webpage, uploading your own papers and research interests, and finding others around the world who have the same research interests as you.

brent on May 24, 2007 [–]

Although most/all academics are aware of facebook. If they had an interest in this they would be using facebook to do it.

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