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shared by Joh Fra03 on 31 Jan 09 - Cached
  • That’s not so much an oversight as a hesitation, with many institutions still debating whether to adopt social networking capabilities of their own or grit their teeth and take the plunge into Facebook, with all the messiness and potential privacy concerns that would imply.
  • privacy and authentication sought by institutions.
  • ult, Schools, upends the traditional application framework. Rather than make it available to anyone with a Facebook account
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  • ince then, several applications built on the social network’s developer platform (such as Courses 2.0) have sought to restore the functionality, but none has achieved a significantly wide user base among many campuses.
  • The university, he said, is finding it can have the benefits of “living within the Facebook world” without ignoring “prudent concern to retain Facebook as a true social networking site.”
  • With the applications, students will be able to play a “name game” to learn classmates’ names, Staton said — an idea that he suggested would also be useful to faculty members at the beginning of the semester. There would also be a campus news feed, and features that current Facebook users would find familiar, such as the ability to give gifts (like a cup of coffee) to frazzled classmates.
  • Joh Fra03 on 31 Jan 09
     
    application eases colleges' privacy worries by adding an extra layer of authentication, usually using official student IDs or e-mail addresses, and adhering to any federal privacy restriction
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