Facebook is a great tool for getting and keeping in touch with people, but convenience comes with concerns about privacy and appropriateness.\u00a0 Maintaining a professional distance is one major issue that comes along with using Facebook.\u00a0 For professors, this comes down to a single question: should I friend my students?<\/p>\n
If you do choose to friend your students, you get the benefits of being able to contact them more easily (most students probably check Facebook more often than their school email, honestly), make a group for your class, and share events.\u00a0 Of course, that means they can see your profile and what you do on the weekends, and you can see theirs.\u00a0 Chances are, neither of you really want to know.<\/p>\n
Many professors follow a rule of thumb that they will not<\/em> friend any current students, but may friend a student they have become close to once s\/he is no longer in their class.\u00a0 This will keep you from any potential conflicts of interest. \u00a0Just remind students to be cautious about posting things they don\u2019t want you to see, and that you\u2019ll do the same.<\/p>\n Another option is to have two Facebook accounts, one for your personal life and one for your professional life \u2013 you can friend students with your professional account while they are students if you care to use Facebook to share and schedule, and your personal account if you become personal friends.<\/p>\n By ITA, Hillary Shipps<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Facebook is a great tool for getting and keeping in touch with people, but convenience comes with concerns about privacy and appropriateness.\u00a0 Maintaining a professional …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-tips-and-tricks"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/itfits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}