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Craigslist is the classifieds section of the newspaper come to life in the digital realm. It is filled with individuals seeking to partake in over 100 different topical forums available, sell something they no longer need, or give it away for free, get a job or find someone to hire to get a job done, find romance, or a walking partner, anything and everything is possible, that is within legal boundaries. The site is moderated by the community and largely free to post any type of ad with the exception of apartment ads and companies looking to post job openings seeking employees. | Craigslist is the classifieds section of the newspaper come to life in the digital realm. It is filled with individuals seeking to partake in over 100 different topical forums available, sell something they no longer need, or give it away for free, get a job or find someone to hire to get a job done, find romance, or a walking partner, anything and everything is possible, that is within legal boundaries. The site is moderated by the community and largely free to post any type of ad with the exception of apartment ads and companies looking to post job openings seeking employees. | ||
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Revision as of 16:47, 12 October 2012
Craigslist is the classifieds section of the newspaper come to life in the digital realm. It is filled with individuals seeking to partake in over 100 different topical forums available, sell something they no longer need, or give it away for free, get a job or find someone to hire to get a job done, find romance, or a walking partner, anything and everything is possible, that is within legal boundaries. The site is moderated by the community and largely free to post any type of ad with the exception of apartment ads and companies looking to post job openings seeking employees.
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Contents
History
The site was created in 1995 by Craig Newmark in San Francisco, who started a local email list, which then grew and became established as a for-profit company in 1999, however the site maintained the use of a .org domain to "symbolize a relatively non-commercial nature, public service mission, and non-corporate culture". The site is run today by Jim Buckmaster who is titled CEO since 2000. While the site gets more than 60 million new classified ads posted each month the company is run by only about 30 staff members out of San Francisco.
"eBay acquired roughly 25% of craigslist in august 2004."
Countries Available
US, Canada, Europe Asia/Pacific/Middle East, Oceania, Latin America, Africa covering a total of more than 700 local sites in 70 countries. The site supports 13 different languages, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
Terms of Use
"You are also required to comply with, and to ensure compliance with, all laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to your activities on craigslist."
"Craigslist is intended and designed for users 18 years of age and older, and access or use by anyone younger is not authorized."
Prohibited Content From the official CL Terms of Use (1) illegal content (2) content in facilitation of the creation, advertising, distribution, provision or receipt of illegal goods or services (3) offensive content (including, without limitation, defamatory, threatening, hateful or pornographic content) (4) content that discloses another's personal, confidential or proprietary information (5) false or fraudulent content (including but not limited to false, fraudulent or misleading responses to user ads transmitted via craigslist) (6) malicious content (including, without limitation, malware or spyware) (7) content that offers, promotes, advertises, or provides links to posting or auto-posting products or services, account creation or auto-creation products or services, flagging or auto-flagging products or services, bulk telephone numbers, or any other product or service that if utilized with respect to craigslist would violate these TOU or CL's other legal rights (8) content that offers, promotes, advertises or provides links to unsolicited products or services. Other content prohibitions are set forth in guidelines for particular categories or services on craigslist and all such prohibitions are expressly incorporated into these TOU as stated in section 1 above.
Reputation
The site gets a lot of traffic and is used by more than 60 million users each month in the United States, but seems to hold a negligible reputation and stigma about itself to many people.
Platform
The site is a Google Site built in javascript. There are supporting formats for mobile and tablet, but they are not as often utilized and the site is not optimized for viewing on these alternative platforms.
Posting
"Craigslist is intended and designed as a local service. A user may post content only to the single specific geographic area offered on craigslist (see http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites) for which that content is most relevant. The same or substantially similar content (for example, an ad for a particular item or service, a particular offer, a particular message or a particular comment) may not be posted to or communicated via more than one such geographic area. Content that is equally relevant to multiple (i.e., more than one) geographic areas should not be posted on craigslist."
"A user may post the same or substantially similar content no more than once every 48 hours."
Flagging
"A user shall not "flag" (or otherwise seek removal of) content on craigslist without a personal, good-faith belief that the content violates the TOU. A user may flag content only on his/her own behalf. A user must not permit, enable, induce or encourage others to flag content for them. A user must not flag content for others."
Privacy
When creating a Craigslist account you can use your email or a handle for your login. Having a handle gives you the option to maintain an online identity and offline anonymity. When other users view your account then they will have no way of tracing your craigslist identity.
Also it is stated that at login "cookies must be enabled". Many users attempt to maintain more privacy by erasing their online bread trail. The way they can do this is through activating settings to clear cookies after leaving a window. So it is interesting that this login does not give the user the option, but insists cookies must be enabled.
When meeting up to make any transactions made over CL, the company is not held responsible for any actions or damage that may be caused.
Security
This warning is big and bold when you click to login. It infers that there are common scams and fraud that occur with Craigslist, since there needs to be this WARNING up front.
"The collection of craigslist users' personal information (including but not limited to email addresses, IP addresses and telephone numbers) is not allowed for any purpose."
"Any copying, aggregation, display, distribution, performance or derivative use of craigslist or any content posted on craigslist whether done directly or through intermediaries (including but not limited to by means of spiders, robots, crawlers, scrapers, framing, iframes or RSS feeds) is prohibited."
Copyright
Movies
Zach Galifianakis is producing a movie on Craigslist, called "craigslist joe". View the trailer here. The movie will be out August 2nd
A 24 hour documentary has also been made and can be watched on youtube here.
Watch episodes of real people submitting real postings on Craigslist TV. Watch here. The series is now in its 4th season.
References
1. http://www.craigslist.org/about/factsheet Retrieved October 11th 2012 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist Retrieved October 8th 2012 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie Retrieved October 12th 2012
