It’s not just your imagination. Everyone really is on Facebook these days.
Including Virgil.
h/t Dr. B.
This gives me a chance to say some things about Facebook that I’ve been thinking of writing down somewhere since I got back from Barcelona about my “friending” views when it comes to students. Basically, I’m happy to friend most of those who ask, including my students. I regard my Facebook page as pretty much a public space. I have zero confidence that what I write on Facebook will remain private, whatever privacy settings I may use, and I advise all of you to regard it the same way (and that goes for PMs — I recently found a PM in my message box that was sent from one friend to someone I don’t know. Not to me — but I received it. Be warned.).
That being said, think hard first about whether you *really* want to friend me, especially if you are currently taking or planning to take a class of mine, especially if it is a college class. Because I will notice if you unfriend me. And I do look at my friends’ profiles.
And fear not, students, I will not be putting you in an awkward position by attempting to friend you. I think it is unethical for a professor to friend someone who is still a student at her institution. What is a student supposed to do, refuse the professor’s request? I don’t think you should friend anyone who isn’t in a position to turn the request down if he or she wants.
I just recently took all my photos off FB.. I just had a strange feeling about it all of a sudden.
I don’t think that was a mistake, Deeds. And I’m just as glad you did because I was in some of them. As long as a friend of yours has been tagged in an album, I think you can see a whole album even of someone you don’t know. And I’ve read tons of “25 random things” lists of people who weren’t my friends just because they tagged my friends. The default on those notes is supposed to be “friends only.” I doubt most of these people changed it to “friends of friends.”