Two Faces of Facebook

Facebook is a great way to:

• See what’s going on with friends on and off campus

• Find out interesting things about new people

• Network and plan within campus groups

• Make sure that everyone stays connected to what’s happening on campus.

Facebook is a fantastic way for students to stay

connected

• Networks, groups, friends, photo albums, notes, gifts, bulletins, wall posts, personal profiles and contact information, all searchable, edit-able, and customized to each user.

• It’s the best of the social web, being used by innumerable students to manage their social and academic lives.

Create a Profile

• Facebook’s customizable profiles let students decide who they’re going to be today – are they going to focus on sports, and join team groups?

• Are they going to zero in on people who share their politics, or their hobbies, or both?

• Do they want to learn more about new friends who are in their student groups, Greek organizations, or honor societies?

Get Connected

• Do they want to find new campus-sponsored groups to join, new people to meet?

• Do they want to find interesting faculty and staff who share their interests?

• Facebook can help students do all those things.

Facebook works because it’s a social site, with lots of

people contributing stuff all the time

• And when Facebook works, it works really, really well.

• But… how it’s working depends on what you’re posting.

• So… what ARE you posting?

What personal information are you putting on the internet?

Anyone who joins a network you’re a part of can see your profile, not just your friends, or your campus, or even just college students.

ANYONE

So, if anyone can get into Facebook, do you really want

to post:

• Your name and phone number? • How about your entire class and

work schedule? • Your address or dorm room

number?• Pictures of yourself doing fun (but

possibly indiscreet) things?• On line chatter with friends about

personal things?

Also, you don’t have as much control as you think you do,

because:

• The Internet NEVER Forgets.

• Content from your profile could end up on some other site, even after you delete your account.

What kind of photos are you posting?

• So, in those photos you posted… Are you drinking beer or smoking a bong?

• Your parents can use Facebook to check out your friends.

• Prospective employers routinely search Facebook for information on newly-graduated job applicants.

• Authorities looking for a character reference can check your Facebook photos to see what kind of ‘interests’ you have

• A professor writing you a letter of recommendation for graduate school or a great new job can check Facebook, too.

Is your profile image positive and wholesome?

Is this the image you want your parents, professors

and prospective employers to see?

Read the “Terms of Use”

• Facebook owns what you post…

“By posting information to your user profile, you automatically grant Facebook, the rights to use, publicly display, reformat etc. your content”

• …and they can reuse it without your permission.