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Chrissy Stroop
Nov 17, 2024
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It seemed so innocent when it first came on the scene. I first got Facebook around 2005 or 2006. I shut my account down some time ago now and am not going to go digging through old emails to try to figure out if I can pinpoint exactly when I signed up, but I can say that it was shortly after the then new social media platform came to Stanford, where I w…

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