I don't really understand myspace too much. It's a somewhat useful site for me because bands are on it that I like, and you can often get rare mp3's from their myspace pages. But most of it is people I don't know e-mailing me or telling me to "add me" as their friend even though I don't know them. I rarely go into the "messages" or "friend requests" part of the site and don't even really know when I get messages unless I happen to check. I guess I'm not really using it as a networking tool at all.
However, one caught my eye tonight and I clicked on the link and this was the message:
Subject: oh em gee
oh my goodness mr (epiphinbalto) has a myspace!! its me (edited) u had me in 9th grade now im in 11th...EVERYONE has a myspace now :-p btw u rocked as an english teacher now i have ms (edited) for IB ENG III wheeeww its harrd but nevertheless u still rocked add me
"Oh em gee," indeed. In addition, I found an "friend request" from another former student. The kids have found me.
(An aside: can you believe a student wrote that e-mail to an English teacher?)
I'm trying to decide if it's a big deal. My profile is not very revealing - just favorite books, movies, and shit like that. The "about me" space just says, "A guy who loves his job, life, and baseball. I moved to Baltimore four years ago from Michigan, without knowing a soul. I like it here a great deal, and have made it my home. Life is good." Not much revealing there. I don't think it matters too much. Hmmm. I'm sure my colleagues will make fun of me for this one.
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3 comments:
I don't know how often you get email from students, but if that myspace message is any indication, you might see the same disease that I do: IM language instead of English for email correspondence.
So can I make a request? Since you're a high school teacher, you can get them early. And, since you're an English teacher, it makes sense for you to tell them that IM language to people who are in a position of authority is not acceptable. I'm often shocked by what I see, and then I get really worried that someday they'll write an email in that kind of language to their bosses in a job. I'm in a science field, and so it never seems quite right for me to bring it up, but if it ever makes sense for you to do it, many college professors would be forever grateful...
We had to block myspace at my HS. Too much wasted time checking everyone out. Ummm, do you really want students to know you have an account? Have you spent much time perusing the pages? Check out the student who contacted you and all of his/her friends. You'll probably find many more students and find out many more things than you really wanted to know.
my friend is a teacher in philadelphia and he has a really hard time with a lot of students (mostly those with crushes on him) all trying to add him as his friend.
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