If you discover users who are misrepresenting themselves - for example, a user calling herself a student even though she is actually a member of the campus police force - please report this to us as soon as possible. The account will be removed.

It's not inappropriate unless the student thinks it's inappropriate. We're trying to invest our users with as much autonomy as possible.

It's a place where you can build an identity online, ... You're looking at an encyclopedia entry of each user.

Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard, had the idea in the winter of 2004. He started off with the idea of creating a universal online database for college students with social-networking functionality.He revamped the idea of the original college facebooks-the books of bad freshman-year ID photos and boring information-by putting them online and giving students the control over the information they wanted to share with others.

What we're concerned about is providing a Web site for students that's a reflection of everyday student life. If that means at times they're engaging in behavior that some people don't like, well that's an issue that can be talked about.

Pinterest is offering consumers a way to discover things on the web, in a serendipitous way, with a beautiful user interface. So it's offering a whole new paradigm called 'discover' and allowing users to be creative.