Facebook: Not for Amateurs

Posted on December 12, 2008
Filed Under News, The Daily Prereq | By Jessica Gross

Dartmouth professor Reiko Ohnuma must think Facebook is some sort of online private diary. She announced, via status messages and wall posts, that she was researching for her lecture the night before using Wikipedia. In a post to a friend who was helping her with this “research,” she put it better than any parodist could:

yeah, but i feel like such a fraud…do you think dartmouth parents would be upset about paying $40,000 a year for their children to go here if they knew that certain professors were looking up stuff on Wikipedia and asking for advice from their Facebook friends on the night before the lecture?

Why, yes, I do think they’d be upset!

Some commentators on IvyGate’s post, though, felt differently:

This was silly of her to have a facebook page that wasn’t private or friends only. Whoops.

However, for people reading this, especially undergrads, to call for her to be fired is a joke. Seriously, Professors and TA’s are people too. Does anyone look forward to grading a stack of papers with baited breath? Would anyone enjoy co-teaching a course with someone who’s mentally checked-out?

And really, generally undergrads, who would enjoy teaching a class of students of which most you’re sure spent more time planning their binge drinking that night before than on the 15 page paper they just turned it.

Professors and TA’s are people too. Honest mistake by her, but to see some comments from undergrads claiming she should lose her job? What a joke.

Yes, some undergrads come to class unprepared. But the difference is they’re paying, not getting paid.

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3 Responses to “Facebook: Not for Amateurs”

  1. Jess Krywosa on December 12th, 2008 2:08 pm

    Wow. Who doesn’t know how to make their FB private by now? But then again, what better way to get accurate up to the minute thoughts and info than Twitter? :)

    @jesskry

  2. suzybabies on December 12th, 2008 2:48 pm

    wow what a fucking moron. what is she thinking to even tell her friend about it.

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