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Originally Posted by JamesBrown
Do you find it necessary to friend the students to get this done? Could the same be achieved through a facebook group?
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We use a Facebook group, but I am also friends with my team's student leader and talk to him extensively about design. I don't seek students out on Facebook, but I won't reject a request - just put them on a limited profile and it's fine.
Just last night he and I collaborated on an iteration of Shaker's drivetrain. If we didn't have Facebook, what other kind of real time, text and image based communication platform could we have used to share CAD renders and ideas? Facebook might be a tool for some people to talk extensively about their personal lives, and I certainly make Facebook statuses about how much studying I have to do or how non-exciting it is to be in Wisconsin, but I really don't think THOSE details affect my relationship with students.
I keep anything that would negatively affect my relationship with a student off my public Facebook profile. Any information I wish to share that's less than appropriate for basically anyone to see, I do on Google Plus, which is an 18+ service which I do not add students to.
People are paranoid. Just because I have a Facebook profile doesn't mean I'm about to advocate to students that they all make the same life choices as me. And even if I did, come on, my students are smarter than to blindly follow the habits of a 19 year old college student.