View Friendships: Love It

Let’s face it: at Harvard, we like to get the maximum output for the minimal energy input. Some people might call that laziness, but I like to call it efficiency. We produce A-grade papers with four hours of work and somehow manage to churn out problem sets the night before they are due. We’re not actually lazy, of course. However, between midterms and maintaining some semblance of a social life, we are forced to become experts at time management if we want to get it all done.

So since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was a Harvard undergraduate himself, it only makes sense that he took this laziness one step further. Showcasing his Harvard efficiency, he managed to streamline every student’s favorite procrastination tool: Facebook stalking. Forget “Wall-to-Walls.” Reading comment threads between two of your friends is for old people. The recently introduced “View Friendship” link is the new face of Facebook stalking. Now you can see the history of two people in one place without wasting time dissecting both of their profiles. One click and bam—you can stalk your crush’s conversations with his roommate or do some casual detective work about your ex-boyfriend and that new girl he’s been seeing. Really, just imagine the time you’ll save not having to weed through photos to figure out which freshman year besties became sophomore year frenemies.

And although we know that nobody is above Facebook stalking, the “View Friendship” link has a less creepy side too: it takes you to pages made just for you and a friend. You can reminisce about your entire Facebook relationship, from the moment you first wrote on each other’s walls, to the picture you took together at that sloppy party last weekend that neither of you really remembers. How’s that for sentimental?