Hughes said that thefacebook.com will expand to over 100 schools by the fall. He said that McGill University would likely be the first non-American school to join the network.
Hughes also said that Zuckerberg is planning to integrate a new program called Wirehog which would “significantly change” the website—but Hughes would not comment on the new features. Davis said that Harvard’s official facebook—slated for completion in the fall—would not be in competition with thefacebook.com because it would include the entire student body.
Yet Mahan said he thought the administration was “innocently out of touch” with students on “90 percent of issues.”
“I had conversations with administrators about what their facebook would look like. The things that they were thinking of—e-mails and cell phones—were so basic compared to thefacebook.com,” Mahan said.
—Staff writer Elena P. Sorokin can be reached at sorokin@fas.harvard.edu.