Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 1:28am

Profs now friendly on Facebook

At Yale in 2007, professors poked, caressed, bitten and defenestrated online

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Published Friday, October 5, 2007
Joel Silverman has 138 friends at Yale but only 19 wall posts. Daniel Tauss smiles playfully behind a life-size cartoon pineapple in his profile picture. The “Superpoke” function on Bill Summers’ profile says he has bought a drink for a student. Scroll down and a prompt asks, “What do you want to do to Bill?” and gives options of “bite, caress, chest bump, defenestrate, do, give flowers to, grope, high five, hug, hustle” — the list goes on.
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