Social Networking Sites

Along with the Social Bookmarking, we've also been looking at social networking sites in class. Amazingly, these have gone from a fun way to keep in touch with friends, and look at pictures, to a major topic of debate for students, teachers, and even suddenly government officials. We are doing a debate in class about whether Lincoln should allow facebook to be accessed through the school computers, and in doing the research for this debate, i discovered that a Resolution has been PASSED in the U.S. House to force public schools and libraries to ban social networking sites. Crazy! i mean, i can see individual schools banning them but to make it a federal offense to let kids use them at school? a little much, in my opinion. And possibly, not really their business? anyways, more later on that.