FaceBook - A Social Requirement in Higher Education

// February 1st, 2006 // Technology Bits

Facebook is a social site targeted at people associated with colleges and universities. Its popularity has gone through the roof this academic year, a quick peak at Alexa and you’ll see how drastically its rank spikes.

During the winter semester Jenny was taking a class. A fellow student contacted her and informed her that she was the only one in the 15+ student class who did not have an account on Facebook. In fact, he was a bit annoyed at her for this and felt she really needed to create an account.

The level of involvement students feel with Facebook is astounding. This social software has become the preferred collaborative environment for them. By choice. Not by some academic decree or because people thought students needed to use it. They chose this product for themselves.

Wondering if this one example was an oddity and not truly indicative of an overall trend at Plymouth State or higher education in general? Casey got the following from Facebook: “There are 3,975 registered users at Plymouth State University. Like the other schools on the site, over 60% of them log in every 24 hours.”

That means approximately 2,385 users are logging in to Facebook each day. Our campus portal gets around 3,800 uniques daily and we make it difficult for students not to use that…

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37 Responses to “FaceBook - A Social Requirement in Higher Education”

  1. Bob O'Hara says:
    February 1, 2006 at 11:18 pm

    Here are some more thoughts on facebook.com in higher education that might be of interest:

    http://collegiateway.org/news/2005-thefacebook

  2. zbtirrell says:
    February 2, 2006 at 9:06 am

    Great article, thanks. I love the concluding sentence:
    “Whether you can see it or not, there’s a large sphere of social interaction at your institution that isn’t taking place on your campus, but is instead taking place on the webservers of thefacebook.com.”

  3. jenny says:
    February 2, 2006 at 9:42 am

    Casey, whom we were talking about last night, was saying that she uses it too. she logs in more for staying connected with her high school friends than with college though.

    another interesting thing to look at would be the connection to Myspace. I know alot of people with both, (again I dont have one) but it would be interesting to see the PSU #’s on that.

  4. zbtirrell says:
    February 2, 2006 at 2:34 pm

    Jon Martin sent me this great article from The Keene Equinox.

  5. BorkWeb » Blog Archive » Subverting MySpace and Facebook Blocks With Proxies says:
    March 1, 2006 at 9:57 pm

    [...] Blocking social sites like this has been met with heavy opposition by those users that are directly affected by such blocks. Lets face it. The web is extremely social and is growing more so as time progresses. My friend, Zach mentions (via our mutual friend Casey): There are 3,975 registered [Facebook] users at Plymouth State University. Like the other schools on [Facebook], over 60% of them log in every 24 hours. [...]

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  7. …It’s How You Use It « MaisonBisson.com says:
    July 25, 2006 at 2:47 pm

    [...] Indeed, when college students are spending so much time on AIM and logging into Facebook daily, is a car really as important as a computer in a teenager’s social life? When 89 percent of students start their research in a search engine, isn’t the computer more important than a car to get to the library? [...]

  8. …It’s How You Use It « MaisonBisson.com says:
    July 25, 2006 at 2:47 pm

    [...] Indeed, when college students are spending so much time on AIM and logging into Facebook daily, is a car really as important as a computer in a teenager’s social life? When 89 percent of students start their research in a search engine, isn’t the computer more important than a car to get to the library? [...]

  9. Johnathan Dukane says:
    December 8, 2006 at 1:11 am

    How do I hack a facebook password?

  10. joe says:
    January 10, 2007 at 3:15 am

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  11. PETUNIA says:
    March 16, 2007 at 9:05 am

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  12. The says:
    March 21, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    Face book is the coolest thing in the world. I didnt have any friends before i had a face book but now i have many. I enjoy intense bird watching and now i can do it with my friends. I also enjoy playing chess with my new friends and we get into intense tounaments. Face book is the best thing in my life.

  13. life is just one big retard dance on a tire swing with one shoe on says:
    March 21, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    myspace is better you can do everything you can do on facebook only more. sometimes i even have a friend request! i know awesome! serioulsy though thats were i found my girlfriend elise pinick, and cant i just say, TOLTAL BABE.(.)(.)

  15. heftygirl says:
    March 22, 2007 at 10:57 am

    How do I hack a facebook password/facebook account?

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  17. jeanpaul says:
    September 12, 2007 at 6:53 am

    I got this in email yesterday, works like a dream..

    _________________________________________________
    :How to hack a facebook account - excerpt from the system documentation.

    _________________________________________________
    “4. In the event of password failure/corruption, a user password may be obtained to be changed by sending a message from the requestor’s FB account to the AutoAdministrator in their region, with the following character string - “authenticationreq$$password$$$”
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    __________________________________________________

  18. georg says:
    September 19, 2007 at 5:59 am

    how do i hack a facebook account

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  19. Tom says:
    September 23, 2007 at 5:31 pm

    How does the comment by JeanPaul actually work? pretend you are talking to an idiot.

    My password has completely stuffed up

  20. Julia says:
    October 10, 2007 at 1:05 pm

    How do I crack a facebook password/account?

  21. Perelka says:
    October 17, 2007 at 11:04 pm

    i dunno how to each page 34, how cud i possibly register here to be able to view it?

  22. anna says:
    October 19, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    hey. how can i view someone’s profile if he’s not my friend and isn’t in my network? thnx

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    January 3, 2008 at 6:26 pm

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  24. billy says:
    February 2, 2008 at 11:14 am

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    February 5, 2008 at 10:26 am

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