<p>A group has been created called College Confidential Parents. It is a closed group so that parents will feel comfortable joining. If you are interested, join the group and include your CC name for the admins and the admins will approve your membership.</p>
<p>Our real life names would be there, however. If the administrators are going to let everyone from CC enter, there will be no anonymity, assuming your Facebook identity is real…</p>
<p>Is it possible to join under our real name? I know we would have to tell the administrator our CC name, but is it possible to not have that part of our Facebook identity?</p>
<p>Wow, there’s about 10 CC groups on FB… maybe I need to join the one called “College Confidential Rehab.” But the first step would be admitting that I have a problem…</p>
<p>Lorelei, isn’t the whole point of a FB group that it links to your profile? That would allow people to see your name, photos, etc. I’m not a FB expert, so I could be wrong…</p>
<p>You can join under your real name and I guess you don’t have to share your CC name if you don’t want to except with the administrator.</p>
<p>I do not mind being public about myself, but I make comments here about professional issues in my field, and I can be franker if I am anonymous.</p>
<p>I’m more concerned about the many comments I’ve made about my kids on CC, and losing their anonymity, rather than my own privacy. But the idea really intrigues me, I’ll have to think about it.</p>
<p>“You can join under your real name and I guess you don’t have to share your CC name if you don’t want to except with the administrator.” I’d spend all my time trying to match up FB members with their CC names, ha ha!</p>
<p>I think we should agree that we wouldn’t reveal anyone’s identity on this forum. Keep facebook on facebook.</p>
<p>It sounds good, but there is no way to control it. I thought about the privacy of our family members, too. I try hard to say things that are totally revealing about family members, but someone who has already heard my war stories would know immediately. </p>
<p>I use Facebook as way to keep contact with various professional acquaintances, colleagues, former colleagues, students, former students, etc. I love it as a networking tool. One great thing has been that my grown-up daughter was the first person to invite me to be a Friend, and I get to eavesdrop on conversations she has with former friends. There is an ongoing commentary about her third grade class picture, and out of the 18-20 kids in it, many are chiming in, mentioning old friendships, crushes, etc., absolutely fascinating. It is a treasure as a social contact format.</p>
<p>There seems to be some confusion about how fb works. If you join the group and use the “wall” and post. It will have your picture & your name. (Many don’t have a photo right away.) You will need to contact the administrator of the group & tell your logon name here at CC because it is a parent only group.
This is important:<br>
Just because you join the group does not mean that you will have any friends that can see your private information. You will need to ask others if you wish to be friends, or answer yes when you feel comfortable with their requests.
Signing on to fb with a pseudonym is kind of silly, no one will be able to find you that you know!</p>
<p>Have fun!</p>
<p>Good point, Melsmom. I had forgotten that you do not necessarily have access to each member in the group unless they have agreed to be a friend. How can the CC monitors make sure only parents join?</p>
<p>Well I belong to another parent only group and the admin will email whomever wants to join. That person should be recommended by a group member or should tell the administrator their cc name & hopefully it will familiar (with multiple posts) here on cc. The admin will then decide whether or not to let the person who has provided the credential join.
Obvi most of us that hang out here in the cafe are adults though occasionally you get a student asking us a qstn. This week I have my own picture up as well so you can see that I only wish I were still a kid. Sometimes though my profile picture is of my cutie pie pup, but you can usually tell if it’s a parent from the photo.</p>
<p>CC has nothing to do with the facebook group, from what I gather here Momofwildchild may be the administrator.</p>
<p>What happens in CC stays in CC. I don’t want to check both the forum and the FB group. </p>
<p>What are the benefits of being on CC as well as the CC Facebook group? Why wouldn’t just CC be enough?</p>
<p>For those of us who chose to friend each other on facebook (which some already have), we can see pictures and other information.</p>
<p>MOWC…for a long time, I was not on facebook as I saw it as my kids’ domain (it originally was just for college students at first anyway). But I joined last year specifically to join a private group of CC parents (Melsmom is one of them!) with a common interest. It is a closed group by invitation and nobody else can read it. It doesn’t have CC in the name either but most of us first met through CC and are approved by the person who administers the group. But as Melsmom explained, while we all see one another’s name if we post on the group’s wall or discussion threads, and we do all use our real names, that doesn’t mean everyone sees one another’s private facebook profile/site/pages/photos, etc. That is only accessible to people an individual agrees to “friend” and you have sole control over that. I have friended people I know pretty well and feel comfortable doing so with but it is not the entire group. The group is not THAT big. </p>
<p>It is different than participating on CC (though one more thing to check!) in that we confide more personal type information than we would on a public forum (that anyone can read) as it is a closed group by invitation only. </p>
<p>I have not friended my own kids because I feel they deserve to have their wall conversations with friends that are not privy to my eyes as it would be like listening in on their phone conversations. My kids tell me lots and I don’t feel like I need to see their facebook pages and I don’t want them to see what I am talking about either! :)</p>
<p>MOWC, </p>
<p>I just looked your group up on FB. You said it was a closed group, right? So, I don’t understand why I got to view a list of members. I do not think that is how the group I belong to works. It is private and nobody can view who belongs, I don’t think (right, Melsmom?). I might consider joining but would not consider if anyone could look up the group name and see a list of who belongs.</p>
<p>I tend to think that once a parent has made 500+ posts, it is likely that if someone really wanted to figure out who they were, they probably could.</p>
<p>MOWC…Ok, I went to try that again and now I can’t view the list of members and so maybe you changed the setting and that’s good!</p>
<p>I’ve never done a group before. It was a closed group, which means anyone can see the group description but only members can see the wall and discussion board. I made it secret, but the only way people get to be in it is if I invite them. So- send me a PM if you want to be invited.</p>
<p>MOWC…right. It IS closed. But when I first looked it up, the listing of members could be seen (not the wall or discussion board/page). But now that is changed and that can no longer be viewed (perhaps you now adjusted it). That is how it should be. People can see the description but not a list of members (unless they have joined). That is how it is for the little group I am in (my only FB group and why I first joined FB).</p>