What's wrong with friend requests from your students? Lots of people view social networking as a way to connect with their students in a space that is open, familiar, and easy to use.
I realize that social media is not for everybody, but it always makes me chuckle when people who don't use it poke fun at those who do. Personally, I have generated work leads and cultivated relationships on facebook far more than I would have without it. If I were in academia, I would think of facebook as a resource and a tool, and would be using it to engage my students. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of delancey Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:12 AM To: R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association Subject: Re: Shatner's new spec-fic-themed social networking site (!) Well, I'm the worst guide on these things, but maybe I represent some tiny demographic, and I must disagree. I never understood Facebook. It looks to me like a crappy web site software -- kind of like AOL- make-your-own-website! I stay away from it from fear that students will bomb me with friend requests. But this thing is actually for something besides telling people when I eat lunch or displaying pictures of my cat; the purpose is to network with creators of spec arts; that's attractive to me. (There's an equivalent thing in academe, called Academia.com; I don't use it much at all, but apparently some academics do.) So I signed up.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
