As a student, I find social networking to be amazing. I have friended (I like how a noun has become a verb. Thanks, Mark Zuckerberg!) college professors and old high school teachers. I have also seen some of the pages of other high school and elementary teachers, and I'm surprised they would post some of the stuff that is on there. My philosophy, right now, is to maintain my Facebook page and this blog. I wouldn't friend current students of mine; however, after graduation I probably wouldn't have the same issue with it. An issue would come up if a graduated student friended me and his younger sibling or parents saw my page. Therefore, I believe it is probably in the best interest of everyone to maintain a more professional relationship until a student (and siblings) are long gone out of high school or just not do it at all.
I always use 'befriended', when speaking of Facebook. There are people who think I am being pretentious.
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That's because you are. ;)
ReplyDeleteYes, I was getting to that bit: And then there are people who KNOW that I am being pretentious!
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