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By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:43:39 +0000

You are deluded for thinking that people NEED to learn all about social networking sites. I am interested where your blindness comes from.

How about teaching people face to face social skills. Social skills are deteriorating… but maybe you are endorsing that we all get plugged in to The Matrix (which in 100-200 will exist in some form as humans obsess over immortality).

Glenn Batuyong said: "schools do have some obligation to prepare students for the real world"… however the real world isn't about immersing ourselves in to virtual worlds and disconnecting with each other in the real physical world.

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By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:19:53 +0000

Really? No myspace? I checked out Purdue University and found Purdue University-Main Campus at http://school.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=sc... with Members (39748) and Current Students (15789).

By: Ghada

Ghada — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:26:47 +0000

very nice post,,, thank you Kyle

I think that graduates are not aware yet that social media is not only for contacting there friends,, but if it used proper can help them to promote there qualifications and getting there dream job
they need to aware of importance of social media and trained to use it for building relationships and develop there career

Ghada
http://www.doubleurincome.com

By: Steve Gasser

Steve Gasser — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:50:41 +0000

Great article. Businesses try hard to market to Gen Y, but don’t really understand where to find them. So what I got out of the article is to understand where your audience hangs out.

I agree with you that Gen Y should explore other social media tools. This will serve them well in the future. Anyway you look at it, social media is the future.

By: uberbabyboomer

uberbabyboomer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:00:23 +0000

Hello,
Fascinated by this post. I am taking an online teaching certificate course and writing a paper about the effect of social capital in online college classes. Do you have any references or know of any articles that explore this concept?
Thanks for you suggestions.
uberbabyboomer

By: Mark Wolfe

Mark Wolfe — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:00:42 +0000

Same here. I faced a sea of blank stares when I asked for a show of hands of who used Twitter. I often see this same expression when discussing with my clients about social networking apps, but University seniors? Same thing was told to me. They said they don’t watch TV or get advice from friends, but rather get influence from MySpace and Facebook friends, most of which they never met before!

By: Jared O'Toole

Jared O'Toole — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:34:10 +0000

I gave a talk at Marist College business club to about 60kids. 1 person had heard of twitter.

A big gap is the ideas of using social networking for business and not just fun. All we have known is facebook and finding our friends at school on it and seeing their pics from the weekend. It’s hard to think of it and other networking tools as business oriented.

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