[Air-L] question about use of Facebook in classroom

[Heidelberg, Chris]

Great point Julie! Those TOS agreements are not written in stone as
legal precedent yet,and I have been following the case and I bet that
there will be a split verdict and it may well go to the Supreme Court.
The President at the time of the case may impact this decision because
several members are real old and ready to bail. 

I think companies that use TOS agreements generally have made it very
one sided and in a legal contractual dispute the judge generally rules
against the drafter of the contract because they executed the document
and they knew what they intended to do when they wrote up the document,
but TOS's are used by many companies to act punitively with little
explanation or due process. 
Besides, my classroom groups are closed and are disbanded after the
course is done unless the group were to decide to carry on! I was merely
talking about research of the type that we are discussing. I will admit
that Facebook's appeals system does work but they had to be outed by the
Scobie case to get their system better.

Chris

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Julie Cohen
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] question about use of Facebook in classroom

Fyi the legal force of the TOS is about to be tested in the Lori Drew
prosecution (the Megan Meier suicide case) under the U.S. Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act - one element that needs to be proved is "unauthorized
access" and the prosecution's theory is that violation of the TOS made
the access to Facebook's system unauthorized.

Julie 

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Terrell Russell
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] question about use of Facebook in classroom

Heidelberg, Chris wrote:
> My big question is why don't you have students create pseudo accounts 
> to protect their identities. I use Facebook as a communications tool 
> as well as content distribution tool.
> 
> Chris
> 

Large unanswered social issues aside, I'd be wary of
requiring/compelling students to knowingly break the Terms of Service of
any company.

Creating an account with fake information, pooled passwords, or a group
account is directly addressed in the TOS at Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

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