http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/katiebda/facebook Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3086&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en 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. katiebda Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:17:45 +0000 june08 privacy facebook research http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2749&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en In the wake of the shooting at Northern Illinois University, numerous groups commemorating the event have already cropped up on Facebook. katiebda Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:19:27 +0000 february08 facebook participation story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2637&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Facebook 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.” katiebda Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:59:33 +0000 january08 facebook participation story http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html?ex=1198558800&en=c764e502f697c49b&ei=5070&emc=eta1 In “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. katiebda Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:59:18 +0000 december07 research facebook kdqpp http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2427 It’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. katiebda Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:34:34 +0000 research october07 privacy facebook http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2297 This 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. katiebda Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:25:38 +0000 august07 participation facebook audience privacy