Comments on: Should higher ed institutions use social networking websites? Answers from Fred Stutzman, Facebook expert http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/04/09/should-higher-ed-institutions-use-social-networking-websites-answers-from-fred-stutzman-facebook-expert/ Web, Marketing and PR in Higher Ed Tue, 22 May 2012 06:35:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Peter http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/04/09/should-higher-ed-institutions-use-social-networking-websites-answers-from-fred-stutzman-facebook-expert/comment-page-1/#comment-140567 Peter Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:33:46 +0000 http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/04/09/should-higher-ed-institutions-use-social-networking-websites-answers-from-fred-stutzman-facebook-expert/#comment-140567 I'm with Rob - The fundamental reason that Facebook is so popular is that it is a network of peers ..... anyone else is an "intruder" as Rob puts it - This is a safe container and the last thing a student wants is the school trying to hijack the agenda. On the subject of so called ambassadors from the school .... I'd prefer to talk to a fellow student to get an authentic view of the real world as it exists behind the billboards and admissions "sales" agents. Students propped up by a school as ambassadors are usually doing so for some type of incentive that hardly makes them impartial. Facebook on the other hand allows me to get a warts and all perspective, something that most schools are terrified we see. I’m with Rob – The fundamental reason that Facebook is so popular is that it is a network of peers ….. anyone else is an “intruder” as Rob puts it – This is a safe container and the last thing a student wants is the school trying to hijack the agenda.

On the subject of so called ambassadors from the school …. I’d prefer to talk to a fellow student to get an authentic view of the real world as it exists behind the billboards and admissions “sales” agents. Students propped up by a school as ambassadors are usually doing so for some type of incentive that hardly makes them impartial. Facebook on the other hand allows me to get a warts and all perspective, something that most schools are terrified we see.

]]> By: Rob http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/04/09/should-higher-ed-institutions-use-social-networking-websites-answers-from-fred-stutzman-facebook-expert/comment-page-1/#comment-139054 Rob Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:10:21 +0000 http://collegewebeditor.com/blog/index.php/archives/2007/04/09/should-higher-ed-institutions-use-social-networking-websites-answers-from-fred-stutzman-facebook-expert/#comment-139054 I think we need to be cognizant of the status that we bring into social spaces. For instance, I'd feel uncomfortable if I received a Facebook wall post from, say, the university provost. In this hypothetical case, the provost has brought their conferred status/authority with them into Facebook. I think the student would consider it strange that the provost was intruding on what they consider to be intimate social space. University-sponsored Facebook groups, however, are good vehicles for the casual messages and campus notices that Stutzman refers to the interview. I think we need to be cognizant of the status that we bring into social spaces. For instance, I’d feel uncomfortable if I received a Facebook wall post from, say, the university provost. In this hypothetical case, the provost has brought their conferred status/authority with them into Facebook. I think the student would consider it strange that the provost was intruding on what they consider to be intimate social space.

University-sponsored Facebook groups, however, are good vehicles for the casual messages and campus notices that Stutzman refers to the interview.

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