Tired of clicking through anonymous hotties’ Facebook profiles, you pervert?
MissFacebook.com, co-created by Daniel M. Wallace ’08, simplifies the process, offering visitors the chance to answer the age-old question of who is the fairest (co-ed) of them all. A combination of Facebook and HotOrNot.com, the Web site juxtaposes pictures of hot girls; visitors click on the one they deem hotter.
“There are all these groups on Facebook like ‘The Hottest Freshman Girls’ and we wanted to democratize that process,” Wallace says.
Wallace started the Web site with Hudson W. Harr, a friend from University of Florida using software from Ning.com, which allows designers to create online “face-off” voting games.
Although MissFacebook.com has only been up since the beginning of October, it has already drawn over 45,000 page views, Wallace says, and caused a small stir. When Wallace was suspended from Facebook for what he said he guessed was copyright infringement, a Facebook group was quickly created to beg for his readmittance to the community. (Wallace says it turned out that his banishment was due to “spam”—sending out too many identical invitations to join MissFacebook.)
In spite of being a Harvard creation, the site has yet to make waves on campus. Katherine M. Bringsjord ’09, currently one of the only Harvard representatives, is in ninth place in overall wins, besting various non-Harvardians in more than half of her face-offs. Bringsjord says she joined mostly to support her friend but also because it was an “interesting concept.”
“I’m not really into public exposure,” Bringsjord says. “It was very impulsive.”
Lest he be accused of chauvinism, Wallace has also created MrFacebook.com and gone so far as to add his own picture. As of Tuesday night, he was the only contender.
