The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online. Īccording to The Harvard Crimson, Facemash used 'photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person'. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive. and it's a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. While writing the software, Mark Zuckerberg wrote the following blog entries: The website allowed visitors to compare two female students' pictures side by side and let them decide who was more attractive. The website was set up as a type of 'hot or not' game for Harvard students. FaceMash was opened in 2003, developed by Mark Zuckerberg he wrote the software for the Facemash website when he was in his second year of college.
