What should i confess on facebook

Though some posts were anonymous, many comments came in through Facebook accounts so the writers could easily be identified. They hide behind the computer. High-school pages in Idaho and Arizona have also been shut down after school officials moved to investigate offensive posts.

Administrators of several confession sites told Reuters that they review each submission and refuse to post any that seem inappropriate. Facebook also routinely reviews pages on its site and responds to any complaints about content. If its reviewers deem a post objectionable, the social network will remove it or shut down the site entirely, the Facebook spokeswoman said. None of these safeguards can determine whether those posting and commenting on confessions are bona fide students of a particular school.

Universities including San Francisco State have asked confession sites to stop using school logos and photographs of iconic buildings for fear that outsiders might mistake the many tales of alcohol-fueled sexual conquests for an official depiction of campus life.

Despite, or perhaps because of, official disapproval, the fad continues to gain steam - and may be helping Facebook regain some of its allure among teens and college students.

A recent poll by an online survey tool, Survata, found teens and young adults aged 13 to 25 used micro-blogging platform Tumblr more than Facebook. Scores of Facebook confession pages have popped up in recent months, at small private colleges and huge state universities.

Princeton, Harvard and Yale have pages. Some campuses have Twitter confession accounts as well but Facebook remains the most popular medium.

This is why I post very few photos on Facebook and use flickr for the bulk of my online display and storage of photos. Most of the librarians I know are aware if this issue with Facebook, but most of the general public I talk to is not and, frankly, a lot of them do not care.

To me, that's alarming, and an education issue that might be good topic for another post. Privacy issues with facebook have been well documented as has Facebook's penchant for changing those policies often, without notice.

I will not rehash this argument, but I will say though that I disagree with founder Mark Zuckerbuerg's assertion that people want less privacy. I think that Facebook forces people into less privacy and in order to stay connected, we feel forced to comply with his vision. The original question posed by Alycia was: Should we have professional discussions in walled gardens especially when the conversation, once there, no longer belongs to us but to Facebook?

Probably not. I think those discussions will continue to happen there, for better or worse, because, as I stated at the beginning, people are on Facebook and that is where they are living their online lives.

Regardless of the issues with Facebook, personal and processional conversations of great and little import will continue to happen in the walled garden of Facebook.

As librarians, finders of information and educators of the masses, we have to consider that our professional conversations should not only happen in Facebook.

They should happen in many different places at once. The problem then becomes duplication and distribution. When starting conversations, we would do well to start them in multiple places, across multiple platforms, to be as inclusive as possible. As for me personally, I will continue to be on Facebook, but only marginally.

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