Facebook — a friend or foe

Advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook
- advantages:
- it can enlarge your vocabulary

defriend social swarming
fakester tweetup
meformer mindcasting
MoSoSo social networking fatigue
pity friend SoLoMo
socially produced social notworking

Defriend - to remove a person from one's list of friends on a social networking site
Fakester - a person who puts up a profile on a social networking website that contains false or misleading information
Meformer - a social network user who posts updates that mostly deal with the user's activities, thoughts, and feelings

MoSoSo - mobile social software; a program that enables you to use your mobile phone to find and interact with people near you
Pity friend - on a social networking site, a person whose friend request you accept out of pity
Socially produced - created in collaboration with other people, particularly by using a Web site designed for such a purpose

Social swarming - the rapid gathering of friends, family, or colleagues using technologies
Tweetup - a real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service
Mindcasting - Posting a series of messages that reflect one's current thoughts, ideas, passions, observations, readings, and other intellectual interests

Social networking fatigue - mental exhaustion and stress caused by creating and maintaining an excessive number of accounts on social networking sites
SoLoMo - mobile phone apps that combine social networking and location data. [Social + location (or local) + mobile.]
Social notworking - Surfing a social networking site instead of working

- fun
- free
- sharing beyond the classroom
- online resources - convenient
Advantages of using FB

- absent students
- daily learning activities
- extra assignments
- review material

- reaching students
- saving paper
- shy students
- dissemination of media

- learning names
- polling students – feedback
- lot of learning apps
- collaborative learning

- privacy considerations
- time management
- abundance of information
Disadvantages of using FB

- choosing the administrator
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