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May 3, 2006
Facebook on Campus
Here's a very useful and thoughtful post about undertsanding Facebook on campus. It is called "How University Administrators Should Approach the Facebook: Ten Rules".
I like these quotes:
"The Facebook isn't going away."
"Students are forced to renegotiate their social networks every semester."
"Almost all of your institution's undergraduates are on the Facebook. I found that 94 percent of UNC's Freshman class was on the Facebook."
"Since you can't make Facebook go away, and even if you tried to, you couldn't, you might as well accept it and deal with it. The fact of the matter is that students need to understand the long view, and they need to understand the importance of the written record. They've spent their entire lives online, and they are completely comfortable posting information about themselves online. Now that they're 18, economic motivations step in, and it is our obligation and duty to protect them."
Worth a read.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at May 3, 2006 7:14 AM