Internet & Society Course Blog

The Facebook is in the news again. (Recall Fly Gal’s post pointing to a TV news segment.) This time the coverage concerns parents of incoming first-year students at Syracuse University. Based on information they gathered about their children’s roommates (e.g. about race and sexual orientation) parents started contacting the university demanding that their kids’ roommates be changed. So much for providing their children a mind-expanding college experience.

UPDATE: You may find this analysis of Facebook use by first-year students on one campus interesting.