I'm on it. I don't really use it, but it comes up as a google response to my name and I have a list of my research interests on there which people can see.
My father's an academic too, and according to him, a professional use only facebook page is better, as you can use it to communicate with people outside of academia, in government and industry etc.
That's fascinating about the FB...though I think that would be too weird for me, since FB is (in my head) where I post pictures of my kid and funny links to Jezebel and write obscenity-laden status messages about the failings of my students...
I'm on it but I found it clunky and unintuitive and haven't really developed my profile on it. I was a bit irked at the somewhat amateur-night feel of it - epitomised by there being duplicate or more pages for the same department or centre which individuals had input in slightly different forms. Also, if people are looking for me in particular, I have a personal website.
Maybe there is more to it than that - I'd be interested to hear other views.
I hadn't seen it before now. And I'm miffed that they have the name of my university wrong. (We had a renaming, five years ago, because, IDK, everything is wrong with us. And the name they have is in fact neither the old name nor the new one, but a mashup of both. Good job, New School, for being incomprehensible!)
Still, though, I see the benefit to just being branded another place, especially if I can use it to do more redirects to places I actually use (here, my dept website).
(OK, and just googled myself: apparently, my FB is my first return, which is all locked up, the second is an acafannish article I wrote, the third is my department homepage with my CV and writing samples...that could be worse...)
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Date: 2010-04-04 02:03 pm (UTC)My father's an academic too, and according to him, a professional use only facebook page is better, as you can use it to communicate with people outside of academia, in government and industry etc.
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Date: 2010-04-04 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-04-04 05:36 pm (UTC)Maybe there is more to it than that - I'd be interested to hear other views.
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Date: 2010-04-04 06:02 pm (UTC)Still, though, I see the benefit to just being branded another place, especially if I can use it to do more redirects to places I actually use (here, my dept website).
(OK, and just googled myself: apparently, my FB is my first return, which is all locked up, the second is an acafannish article I wrote, the third is my department homepage with my CV and writing samples...that could be worse...)
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Date: 2010-04-06 04:41 am (UTC)