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...order to promote risk-taking and a willingness to speak, CampusTap follows a model popularized by the Facebook. The site allows blog authors to easily restrict their audiences to those with harvard.edu email addresses, or even to specific people—a blocking group or the board of a student organization, for example. In this way it creates what Katz refers to as a “walled garden”—a safe place amidst a sea of unfriendly or unwanted outsiders...
...Harvard students who don’t want to be associated with certain opinions or viewpoints in public will be more willing to speak out. But those with presidential ambitions would still be foolish to relax their guard: we’ve already seen that corporate recruiters use the Facebook as a tool for evaluating potential candidates. There’s little reason to believe that the journalists of the future won’t find a way to get at past blog posts in the same...
...help make sodas cheaper. “Subsidies for corn make high-fructose corn syrup, an already cheap product and the main ingredient in soda, even cheaper,” says David S. Ludwig, associate professor of pediatrics at HMS. Students who listed soda as an interest in their facebook profiles said that they would be disappointed if the price of soda rose. “I would be significantly poorer,” said Christina L. Adams ’06. “It’s quite possible my tution money would double.” However...
Bottom Line: “Winter Passing” is only a decently enjoyable choice if your facebook profile features eulogies to “Elizabethtown” and the lyrics to “Such Great Heights...
Students may have woken up last Monday morning to pending facebook.com requests from that cheerful face from last year’s freshman musical—their high school’s freshman musical, that is. Facebook.com removed the separation between high school and college facebook accounts Monday, allowing students in both groups to send each other friend requests and subsequently view each other’s profiles. The integration of the two accounts raised concerns about privacy from students who prefer to share their college lives with their college friends. The issue of high schoolers viewing their collegiate counterparts?...