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Title: Facebook and You:


1
Facebook and You
  • What students at Diversity College need to know

2
What is Facebook?
  • According to Facebook.com Facebook is an online
    directory that connects people through social
    networks at schools.
  • Facebook is a way for students to connect with
    people they know, go to school with, share
    interests with and more
  • There are two versions of Facebook currently, the
    original version designed for colleges and
    universities and a newer version targeted for
    high school students

3
Facebook a brief and tumultuous history
  • Founded in February 2004
  • Founders
  • Mark Zuckerberg
  • Eduardo Saverin
  • Dustin Moskovitz
  • Chris Hughes
  • All were students at Harvard College at the time
  • Lawsuit from website ConnectU
  • Alleged that Zuckerberg had stolen the idea while
    employed by their company

4
Facebook Today
  • All four of the original founders left Harvard to
    pursue Facebook.com full-time in Palo Alto
  • It is estimated that over 2,000 colleges and
    universities are supported by Facebook and more
    than 25,000 high schools
  • More than 6 million college student accounts
    already exist and it is projected that 20,000
    profiles are added each day
  • (Statistics retrieved from http//en.wikipedia.org
    /wiki/Facebook_(website) on February 17, 2006)

5
What current college students are saying about
Facebook
  • Our team conducted a survey and found
  • 81 said they use Facebook at least once a day
  • 77 had been contacted by someone they did not
    know through Facebook
  • 44 felt that Facebook has a negative impact on
    their academic work
  • The most common advice these students provided
    for students new to Facebook was
  • To be cautious about what information is posted
    on your profile

6
Components of Facebook
  • Personal Profile
  • Personal Information
  • Photo
  • Groups
  • Class Schedule
  • Wall

7
Components of Facebook
  • Friends
  • Who can be friends?
  • From YOUR school, from OTHER schools
  • Current students, alumni/ea, faculty, staff, etc
  • Anyone who has a abcde_at_diversity.edu e-mail
    address can register for Facebook
  • How do you become friends?
  • Request an acknowledgment of friend status

8
Components of Facebook
  • Details and Social Timeline
  • Friend Details
  • How you know this person
  • Lived together, worked together,
    organizations/teams, took a course together,
    summer/study abroad program, went to school
    together (preschool, elementary school, middle
    school, high school, college, grad school),
    family, through a friend, through Facebook, met
    randomly, hooked up, dated
  • Social Timeline
  • Uses friend details to construct a timeline for
    the user
  • Displays groups, friends and more that the user
    was connected to through Facebook by year

9
Components of Facebook
  • Groups and Groupies
  • Thousands of groups can be joined by members of
    Facebook
  • I love Harry Potter
  • Procrastinators UniteTomorrow!!
  • Student Government Association _at_ Diversity
    College
  • You can also become a groupie of a group if you
    know a certain amount of people with membership
    in that group
  • The groupie feature can be turned off in the
    privacy settings

10
Components of Facebook
  • Events
  • Groups and individual Facebook users can create,
    post and invite others to events
  • Johns 20th Birthday Bash
  • Sorority Recruitment Informational Meeting
  • Fusion Hall Council Meeting
  • Personal invitations can be sent or the event can
    be listed as open to anyone
  • There is also and RSVP feature for Facebook
    events

11
Components of Facebook
  • Facebook Messages
  • Internal e-mail-type component of Facebook
  • Messages can be sent from any Facebook user to
    another, regardless of school or friend status
  • Poke Feature
  • This feature sends a message via Facebook to
    another user stating that he or she has been
    poked by that person, then the option to poke
    back is provided
  • There is no specific purpose to the poke
  • Considered flirting by some, or simply a joke
    between friends

12
Components of Facebook
  • The Facebook Wall
  • Each individual and group profile can have a wall
  • Essentially a message board where other users can
    post public messages on a users profile
  • Can be edited by the person whose profile the
    message is posted
  • The message writers Facebook picture appears
    next to their message

13
Components of Facebook
  • Photo Features
  • Profile Photo
  • Appears on the users profile page, attached to
    messages and other things the user does on
    Facebook
  • My Photo Page
  • Allows the user to post albums of pictures
  • The user can label the people in the pictures and
    provide descriptions of what is occurring in the
    picture
  • The user can also tag the people in the
    picture, which ties the image to that users
    profile in an additional photo section

14
Components of Facebook
  • Other components
  • Advertisment can be purchased by students or
    corporations
  • Generates revenue for Facebook
  • Pulse Page
  • Has Top Ten lists generated from the Facebook
    community and other trend driven features

15
Facebook The Good
  • Its FREE!
  • Thousands of groups
  • Can help you find others who share your
    interests, hobbies, major, etc.
  • Academics
  • Find students enrolled in your classes to form
    study groups
  • Locate friends
  • From home, high school, and other places who you
    have lost touch with

16
Facebook The Bad
  • Procrastination Tool
  • Most students who use Facebook state that it can
    serve as a distraction from school work and other
    responsibilities
  • Feeling of safe and private playground for
    students
  • In fact many people other than students can
    access Facebook profiles

17
Facebook The Ugly
  • Internet Stalking
  • Personal information such as address, phone
    number and class schedule can provide many tools
    to individuals interesting in keeping tabs on
    someone
  • Incriminating and questionable photos tagged to
    your profile by you or others
  • Schools and police may use as evidence
  • Can be used by employers who are interested in
    background information

18
But no one will see it later, right?
  • Maybemaybe not!
  • There are companies that are collecting
    everything that is posted to the internet
  • Companies could purchase access to such
    information, allowing pages that have since been
    removed to still be seen

19
Other Internet Technologies to be aware of
  • MySpace, Friendster, XuQa
  • Similar to Facebook
  • Livejournal, Blog, and many others
  • Online journal pages
  • WebCT, Blackboard
  • Online component to academics, internet support
    for courses
  • AIM, MSN Messenger, etc.
  • Internet messaging programs

20
What should I do?
  • Be smart!
  • Dont post information you would not be
    comfortable with strangers having access
  • Dont post information that you would not want
    your mom, your teachers, the police, etc to see
  • Think about how something could be interpreted,
    or misinterpreted, by others
  • It might seem like a joke to you and your
    friends, but could be seen as serious by others
  • Dont be afraid to edit or delete things posted
    to your wall or photos tagged by others

21
What should I do?
  • Utilize Facebooks Privacy Settings
  • 3 levels of privacy as well as a custom setting
  • Blocking feature to keep individuals from being
    able to see your profile or contact you
  • Allows you to control who can view your profile
    and what aspects of your profile those people can
    see
  • Features can be turned off, such as the groupie
    feature and your wall

22
Diversity College wants you to be safe and have
fun!
  • Diversity College will not police your use of
    the internet
  • Butif information is brought forth about
    activities in violation of school policy or
    state/federal law, Diversity College is obligated
    to act
  • Diversity College asks that you use Facebook and
    other internet programs and resources for good
    and not evil

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Information for this presentation was found at
the following sites
  • www.facebook.com
  • www.myspace.com
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_(website)
  • Survey conducted by Diversity Colleges Facebook
    Taskforce
  • Also check out Diversity Colleges student
    conduct code found at www.diversitycollege.edu
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