Med Students' Stupidity on Facebook

corranged
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:20:28 +0000

I think in this article we are talking about the UF med students who are members of the UF Facebook network. The UF Facebook network, Soozievt, is only viewable by other members of the UF network (which you need a valid UF email address in order to join). So if I tried to Facebook a UF med student, I wouldn’t be able to see the page, unless the student additionally joined a regional network with no security that I also belonged to. (And I have to say, I know many students with no privacy settings on their college networks, but I can only think of one or two people who don’t have privacy settings on regional networks, which by definition are much more public. Remember that these current med students had Facebook during college, so they’re more used to it than the current residents who MidwestMom mentioned.) It is true that some of these students could additionally have joined regional networks, which–without privacy settings–are viewable to a much larger group; however, I believe in this article, which speaks about students, we are primarily talking about med students who are members of the UF network.