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Some educators say the social-media bans in schools are overkill and privacy
fears have overshadowed the positive educational opportunities social media can
offer students.
It is known, too, that students also access social-networking sites and post
to them during class time via mobile phones or by circumventing the network
blocks.
''Ineffective policy is to ban use; prohibition has never worked,''
doesn't matter how impoverished a young person may be, they will have access to
social networks daily, they find ways to get online through public libraries,
internet cafes, at their friend's house or on their mobile
Common advice for teachers is to be familiar with privacy settings on
social-networking sites, perhaps maintain a private and professional account
(although this is not permitted on Facebook) and to set a search-engine alert
for their own name, so adverse mentions can be detected early and dealt with.
So can, or should, a teacher be Facebook friends with a student?