Hi, Was wondering if I could crowdsource a question for the college crowd, and perhaps also those recently graduated (last 10 years or so)
In my day [and Hannah / Browncoffee will call me old in 3... 2...], college students had physical printed books, called facebooks (or sometimes "menus") w pictures of all the students in a class.
Do colleges provide such things now? or would they exist in online version only? If they exist as printed things, are they still called facebooks, or is that confusing because of FACEBOOK (tm)?
Or would students simply try to find each other on social media?
The situation I'm specifically trying to sort out is how would one college student go about finding out what another student whom they don't know looks like when that person is mentioned to them.
When I was in college, everyone had one of those books in their dorm and it was easy enough to look people up that way.
I'm looking to find out if "kids today" still would go about things the same way, at least as a first step (or would they go straight to or whatever).
thank you!
I think you're safe on this one, old boy. When I was at college, (16-18) Facebook become a big thing. I never had a smart phone, let alone social media so nudges and covert pointing happened. At uni (18-21) a lecturer requested we all had Facebook for him to post to the class.
I'd go for social media "stalking" if I'm gambling. I'm obviously old, too. Possibly a group photo on someone's phone?
"That's that girl I was fucking last Wednesday! You fucking lucky bastard!"
I'm off to entice young women into your lair, well. Ok. Ask their opinions x
you had a PHYSICAL facebook? omg fam, you're so old.
I know of the yearbook or annual. It was a bigger deal in high school because there were about 1200 students in my high school and nearly all had a picture in it. There were 36,000 students at my university. So the university annual only had a fraction of the students pictures. You could purchase the printed version or the CD version. And the university yearbook was probably most popular with Greeks (sorority and fraternity members).
Thanks all!
I think the easiest thing will be for me just to have one character show the other character a picture on her phone. KISS - keep it simple, stupid.
I appreciate the help, and the age jokes!