An interesting article posted in the Guardian Unlimited -  

Guardian Unlimited – “Students Tell Universities” Get Out of MySpace” - reveals how students are not happy about lecturers accessing their social networking sites for academic purposes!!

The article is based on research that found that students want to keep their social lives separate from their university lives and did not want to be always available to their lecturers or bombarded with academic information.

Their message to trendy academics was loud and clear “GET OUT OF MySpace!!!!”

On the other hand the article did go on to discuss the need for universities to stay in touch with this technology and when used responsibly can provide valuable support to both students and lecturers as well as ultimately creating a virtual campus for distance learning students.

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