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The ban also fails, they say, to take into account the role social networking has had in real-world events - most recently the civil uprising in Egypt - and dismisses some of the rich and meaningful ways students use it, including to display grief and to rally for causes.

''Ineffective policy is to ban use; prohibition has never worked,'' he says. ''We want to ensure that each student's electronic footprint is one they are proud of. We do not want to become a society where inappropriate social relations become endemic.