Social Networking and Responsibility

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Social Networking and Responsibility
The map of social networks reprinted in this post is totally worth passing along (it puts things, if you will, into perspective). Following a couple of Chronicle "social networking: threat or menace" posts the author arrives at two insights: first, that "Social networking sites are the equivalent of the city apartment building with the too-thin walls where everyone can hear what everyone else is saying" and second, "the older generations who are now in positions of power are not comfortable with this kind of openness." I think that if administrators could approach openness with something other than blind panic it would be found to be a beneficial development. More...