tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post4498655444706201657..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Personal Time and FBUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-54254375478441168262010-11-05T16:01:05.974-04:002010-11-05T16:01:05.974-04:00"who the fuck goes out and looks up their pro..."who the fuck goes out and looks up their professors on FB anyway"<br /><br />Don't be surprised if they also google you, look you up on LinkedIn, search for you on your college/university website, follow you home, go through your garbage...<br /><br />Ok, the last two might just be me.Anastasiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14295576691711467656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-30376391881859182802010-10-31T19:51:33.654-04:002010-10-31T19:51:33.654-04:00I was going to get a Facebook page, but then I rem...I was going to get a Facebook page, but then I remembered I could actually have real friends and actually do things instead of squinting at the screen all night.<br /><br />Try it. It's not so bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-15551617116744445692010-10-31T15:25:36.353-04:002010-10-31T15:25:36.353-04:00To maintain totaly privacy you'd have to delet...To maintain totaly privacy you'd have to delete your Facebook page. FB's purpose is not to ensure complete privacy for all its users but rather the opposite. For the same reason that you must assume all non-encrypted e-mail can be intercepted and read by anyone with an inclination to do so, you have to assume that anything on Facebook isn't private, no matter what your settings are. <Programming Pattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03838328277067778125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-51293025837609479512010-10-30T14:01:12.790-04:002010-10-30T14:01:12.790-04:00I have two facebook accounts, neither one of which...I have two facebook accounts, neither one of which is in my real name. One is used for my unprofessional stalking and the other is a play on my name that only actual real-life friends would know.<br /><br />But the tone in this post reveals that Midwest May seriously thinks that personal information belongs to her. But it doesn't. May needs to take a reality check about both Facebook (run by Academic Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07086078244493768565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36378862840742833992010-10-30T13:29:52.709-04:002010-10-30T13:29:52.709-04:00I enjoy my FB account, which is under my real name...I enjoy my FB account, which is under my real name and on which I have accepted friend requests from a few former students. People without FB accounts are always warning me in darkly ominous tones about the danger of posting things on my account. These people are always righteous of tone when they tell me that they don't have a FB account and never will. Good for them. For reals. But I Surly Templehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05057191570792423261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-17652021364885446702010-10-30T12:44:49.553-04:002010-10-30T12:44:49.553-04:00In this case, I think the best solution is two FB ...In this case, I think the best solution is two FB pages: one that is personal only (and that doesn't belong to any school-related networks), and one that is professional. I have one colleague with a fairly common name who maintains two FB pages, one personal and one professional, under hir own name; another maintains a personal-only page under a variation on hir dead dog's name, so that Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-81004544799697147652010-10-30T12:43:37.703-04:002010-10-30T12:43:37.703-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-32749337589329630422010-10-30T11:26:16.565-04:002010-10-30T11:26:16.565-04:00Your a professor/instructor and or teacher. She ...Your a professor/instructor and or teacher. She is a student. There are different levels of responsiblity. Accept that.Residenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06713934656003293341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-72007020341803283752010-10-30T11:10:01.330-04:002010-10-30T11:10:01.330-04:00PS - why wouldn't they look you up on FB?PS - why <i>wouldn't</i> they look you up on FB?Wombat of the Copierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14847183793780076028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-74697748216577329322010-10-30T11:08:30.883-04:002010-10-30T11:08:30.883-04:00If you MUST use Facebook, Marcia's got the sim...If you MUST use Facebook, Marcia's got the simplest solution. <br /><br />But based on this experience, along with Merely Academic's, insisting that you won't change when clearly the product is not what you originally thought, is like signing up for Observational Astronomy and finding out it's not learning the constellations, pitching a fit that you're not going to drop, and Wombat of the Copierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14847183793780076028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-40686021317343728552010-10-30T09:59:18.030-04:002010-10-30T09:59:18.030-04:00I have a Facebook page, largely for my sideline bu...I have a Facebook page, largely for my sideline business. However, my rule there is what it is all over the Internet: never post anything, EVEN HERE, that I would not want coming back to me under my real name. The Internet lives forever, peeps, like it or not. People do search for you. I do not use applications on FB, and I have nothing listed in my profile beyond the utterly obvious. PickyHistorianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500487513256575244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-88233176466171616022010-10-30T09:47:31.007-04:002010-10-30T09:47:31.007-04:00Just don't post about work. Ever.Just don't post about work. Ever.Frog and Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377542172335502858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-28964551329004367032010-10-30T09:36:07.065-04:002010-10-30T09:36:07.065-04:00Tricky questions here, May. I second Froderick'...Tricky questions here, May. I second Froderick's notion about the possessive intricacies surrounding FB. If someone like them is hosting your stuff, they have a kind of power over you and in some cases are prone to abuse that power. It's a fight you/we cannot win.<br /><br />As far as the obligation to "always act in a way that students would approve of" goes--basically, the The Thin Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04596385114781576589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-63692642517420718732010-10-30T09:34:40.678-04:002010-10-30T09:34:40.678-04:00I deleted my Facebook account two years ago when I...I deleted my Facebook account two years ago when I started my first TT job. I did it for many reasons including I did not want current and former students to think we were friends at any level.<br /><br />You do not get to see pix of me, my family, and my friends. You are not privy to my jokes and rants. Conversely, I do not want to see your party pix. It really is a two way street.<br /><br />IfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36521215061585372922010-10-30T06:23:57.143-04:002010-10-30T06:23:57.143-04:00Folks, I hate to tell you, but it's not -your-...Folks, I hate to tell you, but it's not -your- Facebook page. It's Facebook's Facebook page.<br /><br />See here:<br /><br />http://www.mattbors.com/archives/612.html<br /><br />I had one for a while, but I got rid of it when I started getting "friend" requests from people I'd never met, and from students. There really isn't much that Facebook can do that the web Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-14751544697747805652010-10-30T04:28:24.077-04:002010-10-30T04:28:24.077-04:00"You have no privacy. Get over it."
- sz..."You have no privacy. Get over it."<br />- szoszolo<br /><br />I'm sorry but the Hungarian(?) dude's right; once info is out on the web it's everybody's business, and those spastics at Facebook make it too easy to go data mining. You see, I never got a Facebook account nor one from Myspace because I remember what an anarchic mess the web was in 1997, and so I've keptStrelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-3147890000189137332010-10-30T04:14:59.258-04:002010-10-30T04:14:59.258-04:00You know, the easiest way to solve all of this is ...You know, the easiest way to solve all of this is to give yourself a pseudonym. it's not hard. you can do it in account settings by changing your name. also, make sure you are unsearchable by google.bob vallierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16628036391312609838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-41400710344203590712010-10-30T04:07:46.225-04:002010-10-30T04:07:46.225-04:00"like most people, I have a Facebook page&quo..."like most people, I have a Facebook page"<br /><br />I'm sure you meant to write "like many people ..."<br /><br />"Unbeknownst to me, Facebook decided to ... take my super crystal clear ... privacy setting and change it so that anyone in my school's network can see anything. Anything."<br /><br />See above. This is precisely why many other people don't Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-74466444298714704592010-10-30T01:30:07.314-04:002010-10-30T01:30:07.314-04:00I have a Facebook page too, and I assume everyone ...I have a Facebook page too, and I assume everyone does, and like you I have a "nobody but my friends should EVER under ANY circumstances be able to see ANYTHING AT ALL on my fucking Facebook page", and thanks to Facebook being run by complete assholes, they change the privacy settings every other bloody week so as to interpret the above to mean "total strangers should be able to Merely Academichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452389428113097744noreply@blogger.com