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"Facebook isn't just a great way for you to find old friends or learn about what's happening this weekend, it is also an incredible learning tool. Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings. Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class."

Discussion about privacy issues with Facebook and how college students are seeing this issue. Also discusses other social networks that are up and coming.

This article has some details on how to delete accounts from social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Good primer.

"For many people - particularly anyone over the age of 30 - the idea of describing your blow-by-blow activities in such detail is absurd. Why would you subject your friends to your daily minutiae?" This article helps those of us over 30 who have the same opinion.

A seven-step plan to set up (and benefit from) a simple social measurement program. With the emergence of social networking, it's important to have some type of assessment plan in place to reinforce the benefit of using this platform in higher ed

Read what the social media trends will be in 2010, more of the same, but social media will continue to play a bigger role.