Profs now friendly on Facebook
At Yale in 2007, professors poked, caressed, bitten and defenestrated online
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.
Only on Facebook can Yale students approach professors in such a cavalier way. But as more deans such as Silverman and Tauss and professors...
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