Mentor - Student Interactions Online

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

I have the same policy. I will not "friend" students until they graduate.

We do have team pages and alumni pages all of us can see but as mentioned those are public so there is not concern about it.

Also when it comes to e-mails we generally have 3 lists we use when sending stuff: All team members, Mentors and student leaders, Mentors only.

I will not seek out students* as friends on FB. I will also not deny the request for 90% of students. I put them on a list called 'FRC High School Students' where they are able to only see what I choose for them to see. It also avoids the issue of having to determine if a person requesting is a current HS student on a team I don't know. I used to go through the whole process of trying to find whether they were a student or what. It also avoids the awkward conversation of "why didn't you accept my friend request?" wherein I end up having to explain why (because somehow there is a huge difference between me at 18 and them at 17 a couple years ago).




* The exception to this is students in EWCP like Nick Lawrence.