Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Policing Facebook and MySpace
Being the Media Specialist, I was crowned the computer "cop" concerning inapropriate use. This is a job I DO NOT want. I am open to ideas of how to find a middle of the road and not be the cop or the lenient pushover. Our students are ahead of us adults on proxy servers to get into the sites. We filter and then fourteen new ones spring up in its place. Being an older person, I don't get into the compulsion to do the social networking 24/7 or giving out personal information. My parents told me not to talk to strangers. Let's discuss the article concerning how schools are handling students posting items the district deems are a violation. http://wcco.com/local/facebook.drinking.pictures.2.640000.html
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FYI - the link doesn't open. Maybe it's because it's the end of the day and I'm tired, but the way I feel about policing computer use effectively is that it's too time consuming and takes too much time away from other important LMS work. When we have no help in the LMC, something has to go. For me this is one of the things that doesn't get the attention it should because there's only one person to do everything. Is it more important to police or to help with research? Not always an easy question to answer. Linda
I've always felt a little nervous about my daughter's and son's use of Facebook. I keep telling them to be careful about what they post there and to monitor what their friends say. Especially since they are both college students and ... I think I'll send them the link (minus 1 "http://") just for them to think about the benefits and problems of the social networking.
...an aide could help the librarian in monitoring use; but it would be better if students would self-monitor.
Linda,
Found the misspelling on the URL and now it is a live link. Thanks.
I suppose that instead of policing Facebook, one should post a library "friend" on everyone's they find there! Then what you wanted the kids to know would be read? A little humor.
I decided that adults could get into the act with a site just for them called Face Lift.
I keep forgetting to do so , but your comments inspired me to try to check out my daughter's entry as I know I would find it interesting. Wonder if she'd let me be her friend!??
Thanks for the interesting article. Since I am so slow in reading others' blogs, the site worked fine. I think the subject could have been discussed as a public discussion without somehow mentioning any particular persons who were obviously depicted in the pictures used for the report. It was actually very inventive of the student to do so as he made a very personal issue of one that is important about which students need to have information and in teaching we try to do that in ways that are meaningful to our customers--he certainly did that.
MM
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