Transcript Asynchronous Communication via Facebook

Asynchronous
Communication via
Facebook
By: Justine Ide
What is Facebook?
• Social networking site
– Available Worldwide
– Built-in language capabilities
– Comfortable Avenue of communication for
students
• 85% of College Students are on Facebook
• Close to 300 million active users
Collection of Info
on Events,
Groups, and
Friends on
Campus
Components of a
Profile: The Wall
- Public messages between
facebook friends
- Comments on status
Components of
a Profile: Info
- Share about yourself:
basic information,
personal information,
contact information,
occupation, schooling,
groups
-Learn about your friends
by looking at their info
• The
How do I join?
www.facebook.com
Information: Name, email, password, birthday, gender
Facebook
“Friendship”
-Look for friends in the
Search Bar
-Click “Add as Friend” and
“Send Request”
-A person must confirm
friendship before you are
allowed access to their
information
Facebook
“Friendship”
and Security
-You can deny or ignore
friend requests from people
you don’t know
- Once you are someone’s
friend they will see your
information
-You can remove a friendship
or block another user at any
time
Creating A Group
• Go to your
groups, Click SEE
ALL
• Scroll to the
bottom of the
page and click
CREATE GROUP
• Create title and
Info
• Invite your friends!
Create Events
• Type Events in the
search bar
• Click CREATE
EVENT near the top
right corner
• Give title, location,
time a picture and
description
• Invite Friends
Create a Character
• Have students create
profiles for characters
in a story you’re
reading for class
• Creative writing in their
second language!
• Personal messages
are great ways to
critique grammar
• If you’re interested,
see us!
Stay after if you’d like to join
now 