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Facebook friends – See More Media https://www.seemoremedia.com Technology, Internet, and Investment Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:18:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 What Does it Mean to Be a Facebook Friend? (Part III) https://www.seemoremedia.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-facebook-friend-part-iii Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:18:12 +0000 http://www.seemoremedia.com/?p=73 Teachers are proceeding with caution when it comes to becoming Facebook friends with their students. Although some analysts believe that teachers should get involved in the world of social media, they should be very hesitant to use these sites to communicate with their students.

Because the social media interactions are highly personal having a Facebook relationship is very different from the student-teacher classroom relationship. As one adviser explained, “It’s a question of maintaining an appropriate teacher-student relationship and respecting those boundaries.” This adviser does not think it is appropriate for teachers to interact with their students on social media sites.

Since Facebook friends are meant to be your peers, family or friends, teachers just do not fit into those categories.

On the other hand, if the teachers want to remain relevant to their students, as people that they can relate to on several levels, teachers should not shun the social media craze.

Steve Dotto, former host of the “Dotto Tech TV Show” explains, “Teachers and all adults have to be part of the social networking world and understand it. If the adults in society aren’t there, we can’t help our kids through it.”

This adviser is quick to point out, however, that he does not mean that students and teachers should become Facebook friends. It would not be correct for students to see personal photos of their teachers up on Facebook, or even worse, the development of extremely inappropriate relationships between students and teachers as a result of their Facebook friendship.

]]> Social Media Creates New Issues for Student/Teacher Relations (Part I) https://www.seemoremedia.com/social-media-creates-new-issues-for-studentteacher-relations-part-i Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:39:50 +0000 http://www.seemoremedia.com/?p=54 social-mediaThe incredible revolution caused by the computer and the internet is raising issues of what are appropriate and not appropriate behaviors on-line. For instance, Facebook has recently exploded with users, and those on Facebook are being forced to makes social choices which will determine what acceptable social media behavior will be in the future. This is entirely different than the way societal norms develop in the world of human, face-to-face interactions, which are learned over time from parents, teachers and peers. Of course manners and what are acceptable behavior changes with each new generation, but the evolution is usually slower and more natural. Today adults as well as youth are being on a sharp learning curve and must come to grapple with what to do.

One issue now being worked out is whether students should become Facebook friends with their teachers. There are some interesting issues here that we will explore in part II of this series.

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