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Be Friends (?) With FacebookJeremy Sarachan

PETALFebruary 12, 2009

What is Facebook?

Who is on Facebook?

Started by a Harvard University student

Social Networking Site

A place to go within the web

Who uses Facebook?

Originally students…as it was limited to them.

Now…everyone.

What does Facebook offer?It “collapses time”.

Share observations/comments with your

“friends” and friends.

Ways to keep in touch without doing anything.

Ways to maintain connections.

Have fun! (Gifts, Quizzes)

What are the features?

Profile Picture

Status Line

Information

Friends

Applications

My Feed

News Feed

Instant Messaging

Who’s Online

…and More

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=64802090&ref=profile

The One With The Friends (are they like the Others?)

Who you know

Who you’ve known

Who you want to know Professional Contacts “Famous People”

The Elephant in the Room(6 slides too late)

Do I friend students?

Absolutely? Never? With rules?

You don’t have to.

Privacy settings exist, but don’t complain or reveal

Why It Matters for Academics

Where the students are How they communicate How they gather information

Useful for professors Information Gatherers Community of Scholars

Professional Contacts

My friends include: Arthur Asa Berger Mitch Resnick Rafe Martin Dale McAdam (or a memory) Gerald Erion

http://www.facebook.com/home.php

I’m in these Groups…

http://www.facebook.com/friends/?id=64802090&view=everyone#/profile.php?id=64802090&v=info&viewas=64802090

Not the kind of “Pages”you’re used to…

Memorial Art Gallery

George Eastman House

University of Rochester

Xerox (sort of)

Departmental Communication

a newsletter, sort of

English

Pharmacy

Communication/Journalism

Course Management:(Why You’re Here?)

Pages vs. Groups

http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/archives/2008/01/facebook_groups_vs_pages.

shtml

Let’s look

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=668716965#/pages/Web-Design-COMM369/45561207117?ref=

ts

The Creepy Tree House Effect

Do students resent the intrusion?

Do students have accounts?

Will non-traditional students go along with this?

Blackboard vs. Facebook:The Battle for Our

MindsFacebook Benefits Blackboard Benefits

Easier-to-Use

Easy-to-access

More fun

More convenient(for everyone)

Open to Everyone

More Features

Better for Content-Intensive Courses

Easier to Organize

More Familiar to faculty

Closed to Everyone

Some HTML: Links(I wish the Apps were better)

Posting:

Go into P: drive. Find the public_html folder. Inside that folder, create a folder named facebook. Put in your documents.

URL: http://keep2.sjfc.edu/faculty/username/facebook/syllabus_260.doc

COMM 260 syllabus: http://keep2.sjfc.edu/faculty/username/facebook/syllabus_260.doc

OR <a href=http://keep2.sjfc.edu/faculty/username/facebook/syllabus_260.doc>COMM 260 syllabus</a>

Some HTML: Formatting

<b>I’m bold</b> I’m bold

<i>I’m italic</i> I’m italic

<h1>I’m a big headline</h1> I’m a big headline

<h2>I’m a slightly smaller headline</h2> I’m a slightly smaller headline

You can do lists, too.

Why Facebook is Great. Period.

25 Things About Me. 25 Things About You.

What is Facebook?

Asked and answered.

We (you and I) have a Group