Social media plays a huge role in todays society. Â Students as well as teachers are constantly on their phones. Â This creates a new type of society. Â A society that is more focused on what is on social media than what is happening in life. Â Face to face interactions are happening less and less. Â People are hiding behind a blockade known as the internet.
Students are teachers are currently unable to contact each other through social media. Â This draws a fine line, especially in districts like Clayton when many teachers are very close with their students.
Many teachers have their own children in class. Â They also may be friends with their childrens friends on social media, such as facebook, and then eventually those friends are in their class.
What is the teacher to do about this? Â Do they defriend all their students immediatly when they become their teacher? Â Do they refriend them again immediatly following their time as a teacher?
Students should simply not be friends with their teachers on facebook.
Even once a teacher has stopped teaching a student, they should not become friends with them on facebook.
This “friending” on many social media sites establishes an informal relationship between students and teachers. Â By becoming “friends” students can see all of their teachers photos on facebook, and their friends photos. Â This also works the other way where the teacher would be able to view all of the student’s facebook account.
Many teens are not careful about what they put on social media. Â Adding a teacher as a friend who can see all of their posts creates an awkward relationship between student and teacher, and should not be allowed.
