Will You be My Friend?

Whenever I meet someone new the first time and it seems like our conversations clicked, I would get an invite on Facebook to be their friend. I'm not really complaining, but at the same time, I don't feel the obligation to add that person right away as my friend.

If you think about it, you upload personal pictures of your friends and families onto Facebook. You don't want a person you've met once to see everything about your life in a matter of minutes. Because chances are, they are extremely curious about knowing every detail about you.

I have heard that high school teachers get friend requests from their students. Even though it's cool that your students have facebook, it's not a good idea to friend them. First of all, you want to keep your personal life private and second of all, you don't want parents getting on your case about that party you went to last weekend and having your students know that wild side of you.

If you really want to use Facebook, I would recommend starting a new Facebook page without your personal information on it and then adding your students as your friends. Then you can integrate Facebook somehow into your class curriculum.