What is Facebook

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What is Facebook?

• Presented by
• Tina Huderle
• Dean of Students Office

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Back in the day. . .

• To keep up with friends, you actually had to see
  them.
• To organize a party, you had to pick up the
  phone.
• To get a date, you had to have chemistry.
• Now, thanks to the miracle of online social
  networking sites, you can manage your friends
  without taking your hands off the keyboard.

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So what is Facebook?

• An online directory that connects people through
  social networks at schools
• Launched to the public February 4, 2004 by
  Harvard student Mark Zuckergerg
• Has grown to 8.3 million users and is the 11th
  most visited site on the internet
• Registers more than 5,800 new users a day

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So what is Facebook?

• In September 2005, it launched a service for high
  school students
• It typically attracts 80 of a schools
  undergraduate population
• 60 of facebook members log in daily, and 85 log
  in weekly
• Searches are available

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So what is Facebook?

• The school does not provide them with any
  information about you
• If youre in college or youre an alum, you need
  to register with an email provided by your school
  
• Free and fast
• Currently valued at around 100 million

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Profiles

• Students are able to create a profile
• Can also post pictures/photo albums
• Can then be viewed by peers
• A shortcut to information
• Students dont know who might be looking at their
  profile

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Privacy

• Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, said Were
  confident that our members are intelligent enough
  not to give out any personal information that
  they want to be public.
• Individuals right to privacy
• How you can protect your privacy

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Some Lingo

• The wall
• Poke feature
• Groups
• Groupie
• Sponsored Groups

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Abuse of Facebook

• Students give too much information
• Their posts could come back to haunt them
• Facebook sells your information
• Information can be forwarded

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The Positives

• Anything that fosters communication and the
  spreading of ideas is important
• Free and easy to use
• Meet new people
• Can see whos in your classes
• Stay in touch with friends
• 24 hours a day/7 days a week
• Advertise

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Whats Bad?

• A tempting distraction
• A procrastination tool
• Decreases genuine human interaction
• Easy to get addicted and obsessed
• Counterfeit relationships
• Personal information listed (identity theft)
• Anybody can get in there who wants to
• Potentially a stalkers paradise

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Whats Bad?

• We forget that anyone can see them
• Pictures of drinking
• Falling GPAs
• Could come back to bite you

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What can we do about it?

• Be proactive
• Educate
• Survey
• One-on-one conversations with students
• Privacy Settings
• Chalk-board rule

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What can we do about it?

• Informational cards
• Warn students
• Remind students
• Develop a task force
• Develop programs and/or presentations

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Other things to keep in mind

• Roommate conflicts
• Community responsibilities
• Family and potential employers
• Code of Student Life
• Worry
• How am I representing myself?

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Other things to keep in mind

• Violating policy
• Haunting
• Employers
• RAs
• Threatening or dangerous
• Embarrassing

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Examples of posted parties at UND

• Halloween 2005-Keeping up the tradition of wicked
  ass parties
• Naughty Nurses
• Lets Get Drunk
• Live Concert _at_ the Empire

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Names of some groups

• Underage people who are looking for 21 year old
  to buy them alcohol
• Alcoholics Applauded
• I Drink, I Party, and Damnit, Im Awesome!
• Famous For My Drinking

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Some better choices for groups to join. . .

• I Love the O.C.
• Students Today Leaders Forever
• Golf Is the Best
• Student Government
• Photography
• Student Ambassadors
• 100 Society

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In closing, remember. . .

• Dont post your year of birth, phone numbers, or
  street address.
• Keep in mind how youre presenting yourself to
  others.
• Adjust your Privacy settings.
• Educate others on how to safely use Facebook.

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Resources

• www.facebook.com
• Online Networking Clicks Among Friends and
  Investors Sense Profits from Web Sites Linking
  People downloaded 11/4/2005 from
  www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file/c/a/2005-
  10-23/MNGAQFCQJ01.DTL
• Making Facebook Friends downloaded 11/4/05 from
  www.newsobserver.com/news/story/2824646p-9273976c.
  html
• Users Abuse Facebook downloaded 10/19/05 from
• http//bb.ctdlc.org/courses/1/sa_200503/content/_
  316117_1/Users_abuse_Facebook_Kansan_com.htm

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Resources

• Cleaning Up Their Online Acts downloaded 10/19/05
  from www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/03/online
  
• Where Everybody Knows your Name downloaded
  5/3/05from www.boston.com/news/globe/living/aritic
  les/2005/04/27/where_everybody_knows_your_name
• Students Face Dangers on Thefacebook downloaded
  8/1/05 from www.dailyevergreen.com/disp_story.php?
  storyId11980printtrue
• Online Social Network Creates Frenzy among
  College Students downloaded 8/1/05 from
  www.dailynebraskan.com/vnews/display.v?TARGETprin
  tablearticle_id421d58b

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Resources

• Bloggers Learn Price of Telling too Much
  downloaded 8/1/05 from www.businessweek.com/ap/fin
  ancialnews/D8B7D9U00.htm?campaign_idapn_tech_down
  
• MU Examining Facebook Use downloaded 11/3/05 from
  http//coumbiamissouian.com/news/story.php?ID1684
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• Facebooks Greek Drama downloaded 10/19/05 from
  http//news.com/2102-1046_3-5895963.html?tagst.ut
  il.print