An option that Facebook might need

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Need to change those settings?

60 Minutes describes how Facebook can’t capture founder Mark Zuckerberg’s relationship to Harvard University, where he studied for a time:

We were warned that he can be awkward and reluctant to talk about himself, so we turned for help to his Facebook page, which says he’s a Harvard alum.

“You’re not a Harvard alum,” Stahl remarks, looking at his own list of networks.

“That’s true. We don’t have a setting for dropout,” Zuckerberg explains.

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Alex Friedrich

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.