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Apparently, college students have heard enough horror stories about potential employers scouring Facebook that many are restricting who can see their profiles — so that any snapshots of drunken revelry, or the like, are available only to friends. -
1voteIn the wake of the shooting at Northern Illinois University, numerous groups commemorating the event have already cropped up on Facebook.
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1voteFacebook users, if pressed, will admit that not all the friends they list on the social-networking site are really friends. And that got Kevin Matulef, a computer-science graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thinking: What if people were open about who on their Facebook page was and was not a friend? He decided to act on the idea by creating a Facebook application, Enemybook, that allows users to tag people as “enemies.”
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1voteIn “The Benefits of Facebook ‘Friends,’” a paper this year in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Nicole Ellison, an assistant prof at Michigan State University, and colleagues found that Facebook use could have a positive impact on students’ well-being. The Harvard-U.C.L.A. researchers are investigating triadic closure, a concept 1st put forth by the German sociologist Georg Simmel.
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1voteIt’s already been well-documented that most of Facebook’s college clientele — and, indeed, many of the site’s off-campus users — don’t bother changing their privacy settings. According to a recent Sophos survey, three out of four people on Facebook’s London network have left their profiles open to all comers.
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1voteThis year, due to the opening up of FB, calls from parents complaining about their children's future roommates are coming all too frequently. In many instances, parents want their children separated from roommates whose profiles show them drinking or partying. However, according to one housing official, parents’ chief concerns are potential roommates’ race, religion, and sexual orientation.
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