<p>Do parents use Facebook? How? What is it for? Thanks.</p>
<p>A parent could use their student’s account if the student gave them the log in and password. A parent cannot have an account on Facebook unless they have a student e-mail address. Facebook is for students at colleges and universities period.</p>
<p>Anyone with a .edu email address, including alumni with such an account, can sign up for Facebook.</p>
<p>I guess I wasn’t very clear about that was I?? You said it well. I am not sure if high school students with .edu can join or not? Apparently from what you say they can.</p>
<p>Yes, I know some HS students who had .edu accounts from various interactions with/courses at colleges who set up their Facebook accounts while still in HS.</p>
<p>I asked D if I signed up for face book would she be my friend. She said no. So I guess I won’t be on facebook</p>
<p>This is one place where I have drawn the line - for myself. Although I am curious to see what S has posted (he already told me he used an awful picture that he took of himself - WHY would he do that?!?) and who his friends are and what other kids I know have posted on and on ad infinitum… This is his life and I should butt out it is the humble opinion I have given myself.</p>
<p>my picture is a cartoon i drew of myself. i’m sure my mom would love to read what i have on mine, but it’s nothing she doesn’t already know. i’d be more than welcome to show you guys what mine says if you want an example of what one looks like.</p>
<p>*edit, here’s my profile</p>
<p>Account Info
Name: Christine
Member Since: March 12, 2005
Last Update: August 21, 2005 </p>
<p>Basic Info[ edit ]
School: YCP '05
Status: Alumnus/Alumna
Sex: Female
Birthday: 01/11/83 </p>
<p>Contact Info[ edit ]
Contact Email:<br>
School Email:<br>
Website: <a href=“http://www.chrisnlinz.com%5B/url%5D”>http://www.chrisnlinz.com</a></p>
<p>Personal Info[ edit ]
Looking For: Friendship
Relationship Status: In a Relationship
Political Views: Liberal </p>
<p>Interests: Photography, playing pool, making things, foreign films, listening to music, playing my guitar, learning the drums, and watching movies
Clubs and Jobs: Habitat for Humanity, Collegiate Challenge, Pool Crew, College Democrats, Math Club </p>
<p>Favorite Music: Cornelius, Ajikan, Cake, RHCP, Live, Mary Prankster, BNL, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sugar Ray (old stuff), Sublime, Yoko Kanno, The Seatbelts, The Pillows, Muse, Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day, The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, The Kills, Jet, Beck, No Doubt (old stuff), Franz Ferdinand, Weezer, Tom Petty, The Steve Miller Band, Frank Zappa </p>
<p>Favorite Books: The Zoo Story, American Dream, anything by Shakesphere, Q Magazine </p>
<p>Favorite Movies: Napolean Dynamite, Say Anything, Sex is Zero, Thomas Crown Affair, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Virgin Suicides, Amelie, Clerks, Eternal Sunshyne, Who’s Got the Tape, Donnie Darko, Better off Dead, Ping Pong, Run Lola Run, Team America, Azumi, This is Spinal Tap, Fletch, A Clockwork Orange </p>
<p>Favorite Quote: The bottom line is I love good music and I try to shy away from all these labels that people think are so necessary to slap on music. It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can’t pigeonhole it to their satisfaction. They will be up all night trying to slap a label on Sublime. Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.- Brad Nowell</p>
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<p>it also keeps track of your friends, and there’s a “wall” for people to leave you comments and whatnot. you can also enter in your current courses and some other various things… that’s just the basics of what i have in mine.</p>
<p>I like the Facebook concept in that it givers the kids a place to express themselves and give a glimpse of who they are. It’s also a nice way to meet other kids at various schools. I especially like that it is somewhat controlled and is limited to college students. My son showed me his page and the pages of a couple of his buddies. It’s really not anything I would be interested in seeing as a parent - so I don’t think parents should be concerned with it or interested in it.</p>
<p>Thanks everybody. It sounds like it is basically hosting blogs for kids. I really had no idea what it was, I had just heard some parents sounded like they were sharing stuff with their kids on it. My son says he uses it, but not much. He’s not really the type to have a lot of info about himself on line, so I guess it is not useful for me.</p>
<p>You don’t really blog on it - you just have like a profile that says things about you… and there’s a wall for your friends to write comments and stuff… that’s pretty much it.</p>
<p>I think it is really good also for kids to keep in touch with high school friends. Most college kids are on the Facebook, so it is easy to find an old friend if you want to.</p>
<p>… or in the case of my son, several friends he’d known from FOURTH GRADE before we moved cross-country for his fifth grade year. They apparently searched him out: he hadn’t communicated with them in 8 years.</p>
<p>I am listing you as a friend fendergirl ;)</p>
<p>I’m still somewhat confused. Is Facebook like an advanced form of an IM buddy list? Can just anyone view a profile on Facebook. I have a .edu email account at work; could I join/belong to Facebook?</p>
<p>well there are privacy setting that allow you to determine who can view your profile, the basic settings are:</p>
<p>Friends only (these are the people whom you have acknowledged are your friends)</p>
<p>Friends of friend (anyone whom your friend at your school has acknowledged as a friend at the same school)</p>
<p>Anyone at your school (exactly what it sounds like)</p>
<p>The only way to view a profile from someone outside your school is to be friends with them.</p>
<p>You can also control what parts of your profile are visible to what level. For example, anyone at my school can see my fav movies, books, and interests, but only my friends can see my contact info.</p>
<p>Like someone else said, HS students can only join if they have an .edu address. I got an email address from UT long before I decided where to enroll, so I was able to check out Facebook. As for non-students with .edu addreses, when you register, there’s a place to choose your affiliation with the university (student/alum/faculty etc) so if you have an univ. email address from work, you would be able to join. Facebook turns out to be quite addictive, but because it’s on most campuses in the country, it’s really easy to search for people - I found a few of my friends from elementary school who moved out of town 10+ years ago.</p>
<p>I thought that .edu wasn’t enough; that it had to be a school that’s been added to FAcebook. I have an edu account , but last I heard, my college (where I work) wasn’t included. Maybe that’s changed.</p>
<p>(And I agree it’s not probably a place for parents, anyway.)</p>
<p>it has to be a school that is added to the facebook, and you need to have an active college (.edu) email in order to do anything.</p>
<p>My D gave a “Not Happening” look at even the hypothetical notion of me being on Facebook. FB is for her, CC is for me.</p>