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<blockquote data-quote="Ada Lovelace" data-source="post: 68528215" data-attributes="member: 354769"><p>I'm friends with some of my teachers but I definitely understand the potential conflicts of interest, the way such a friendship could be misconstrued based on the appearance of impropriety, and the complications that could arise. As I wrote before, I don't actually consider most of my teachers to be friends even though we've friended one another on Facebook. I never use Facebook anymore anyway. My art teachers are my legitimate friends, but those are unique circumstances. Plus one is like 60 and gay, so he's obviously harmless. Mainly it's been a way of staying in contact over the holidays and sharing major news. Some teachers do have public Facebook pages for their classes that parents and students are invited to participate in. There was a scandal at my school involving a very popular English teacher who'd had a clandestine inappropriate relationship with girls, and it lead to a substantial amount of media attention and the beloved head of the school resigning. I think now teachers and parents would be too protective to friend students on social media. It's a shame because he was the one rotten apple.</p><p></p><p>If you wanted to return to Facebook but maintain your privacy you could always just go by a nickname. Or your first and middle name and leave off your last name. I stopped going by my real name on social media after oversharing on YouTube a few years ago and having a creepaholic stalker hunt me down in person. I can still find friends through my email address contacts, or by searching for them myself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ada Lovelace, post: 68528215, member: 354769"] I'm friends with some of my teachers but I definitely understand the potential conflicts of interest, the way such a friendship could be misconstrued based on the appearance of impropriety, and the complications that could arise. As I wrote before, I don't actually consider most of my teachers to be friends even though we've friended one another on Facebook. I never use Facebook anymore anyway. My art teachers are my legitimate friends, but those are unique circumstances. Plus one is like 60 and gay, so he's obviously harmless. Mainly it's been a way of staying in contact over the holidays and sharing major news. Some teachers do have public Facebook pages for their classes that parents and students are invited to participate in. There was a scandal at my school involving a very popular English teacher who'd had a clandestine inappropriate relationship with girls, and it lead to a substantial amount of media attention and the beloved head of the school resigning. I think now teachers and parents would be too protective to friend students on social media. It's a shame because he was the one rotten apple. If you wanted to return to Facebook but maintain your privacy you could always just go by a nickname. Or your first and middle name and leave off your last name. I stopped going by my real name on social media after oversharing on YouTube a few years ago and having a creepaholic stalker hunt me down in person. I can still find friends through my email address contacts, or by searching for them myself. [/QUOTE]
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