Week 2 - Social Networking

I use multiple social networking tools on the internet for a variety of reasons. I use different social network tools for different reasons. I primarily use facebook and myspace. I use myspace to keep in touch with friends from various times in my life, most of my friends on myspace do not have a facebook account, I also use myspace for blogging. I use facebook more to keep in touch with people that I have met through school or through school related topics. I also use facebook to communicate with people about school related issues. I have also used facebook for class projects by setting up groups to coordinate a large class project because it was more efficient than using email. 

I think that social networking tools can be useful in education. I think that they can be helpful in communicating with classmates, students and teachers outside of the classroom. I also think that they can be useful to help organize group projects or class projects so that people don't have to worry about emailing everybody because they can simply address the entire group at once with a posting to the group on the networking site. I think that the use of social networking tools in education is probably most appropriate for middle or high school students and that it needs to be monitored closely to make sure that the tool is being used appropriately.