I have had a facebook page for awhile, and I love how easy and fun it is to stay in touch with friends. I also started a myspace page, but I found that more of my friends were on facebook, so that is where I started spending all of my time. I think it is really fun how easy it is to talk to all or just one of your friends and that you can find people who you may have lost contact with, or even make new friends through other friends. The one disadvantage to facebook is that it can be easy to waste a lot of time unintentionally, looking at pictures and other updates of your friends. One thing that I dislike about facebook is that comments of friends, of your friends, show up. This could be interesting if all of my friends were teachers and I could learn from other comments, but since for me facebook it is just friends talking about personal things, I don’t like having all of the comments from everyone show up.
One feature that I like about myspace are all of the different options for designing you’re your own homepage. One thing that I do not like about myspace is that I find that there are more advertisements on this site that are very hard to ignore. I find facebook to be more user friendly, but if I spent as much time on myspace that I have on facebook I might find that they are equally easy to use.
I think it is important for educators to know about social network sites because they can be a very valuable tool for networking with other teachers. Facebook and myspace are both very user friendly sites and are an easy way to stay in contact with other teachers, and to meet new teachers, through the teachers you have as friends. I am not sure that either site would have a specific need in the classroom; however, both sites are an excellent tool that students could use to talk to each other about questions for each other or things they want to share about school.
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