Comments on: On Teaching Fashion: Facebook and the Classroom, Part Two http://www.wornthrough.com/2009/05/08/on-teaching-fashion-facebook-and-the-classroom-part-two/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:52:32 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Laurabeth http://www.wornthrough.com/2009/05/08/on-teaching-fashion-facebook-and-the-classroom-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-28648 Laurabeth Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:40:02 +0000 http://www.wornthrough.com/?p=3282#comment-28648 I agree with everything you have said about both the pros and cons of using Facebook and becoming friends with your students. One of the things I have done recently to help maintain the boundary between myself and my current students is to hide their newsfeeds. As everyone knows, newsfeeds will show every new post, every wall comment, links you have added, even if you are now "single". All of which I am very conscientious about on my page, but the students tend to not think twice about what they post. The newsfeed allows someone to see what almost all their "friends" are up to, and for students that could be an unflattering picture from last night or a gushing blurb about how great Adam is - all things I do not need, or want, to know. Some may say I am facebook stalking.... but I disagree. The newsfeed does the stalking for you, in a way. Without it I would not be clicking on all my friends, student or not, to see the latest posts on their wall. So I figured out this summer that you can hide a person's newsfeed - and not just the most recent one, all their furture ones too (probably been around for awhile but I just learned it). So now whenever a newsfeed from a current student (or one that just graduated) pops up in my newsfeed I just hide their newsfeeds. They are still "my friend" but now I do not feel quite like I am spying in their window, even when I don't mean to. On a separate note, anyone have advice on the following scenario: student friended me (I accepted); year later student blocked me (unhappy with grades and blocked all the instructors he was friends with); year and a half later he has requested to be my friend again. Not sure the best course of action. As of now, I have not accepted his request out of principle but not sure what the impact will be if I decide not to accept. Thoughts anyone? I agree with everything you have said about both the pros and cons of using Facebook and becoming friends with your students. One of the things I have done recently to help maintain the boundary between myself and my current students is to hide their newsfeeds. As everyone knows, newsfeeds will show every new post, every wall comment, links you have added, even if you are now “single”. All of which I am very conscientious about on my page, but the students tend to not think twice about what they post. The newsfeed allows someone to see what almost all their “friends” are up to, and for students that could be an unflattering picture from last night or a gushing blurb about how great Adam is – all things I do not need, or want, to know. Some may say I am facebook stalking…. but I disagree. The newsfeed does the stalking for you, in a way. Without it I would not be clicking on all my friends, student or not, to see the latest posts on their wall. So I figured out this summer that you can hide a person’s newsfeed – and not just the most recent one, all their furture ones too (probably been around for awhile but I just learned it). So now whenever a newsfeed from a current student (or one that just graduated) pops up in my newsfeed I just hide their newsfeeds. They are still “my friend” but now I do not feel quite like I am spying in their window, even when I don’t mean to.

On a separate note, anyone have advice on the following scenario: student friended me (I accepted); year later student blocked me (unhappy with grades and blocked all the instructors he was friends with); year and a half later he has requested to be my friend again. Not sure the best course of action. As of now, I have not accepted his request out of principle but not sure what the impact will be if I decide not to accept. Thoughts anyone?

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