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Facebook available to AC students
Meagan Rogers
Issue date: 9/28/06 Section: News
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Or they can use Facebook - a relatively lesser known but still useful social networking site aimed at students in high school and college.
"Like MySpace, you can tell people about you, your interests and activities," said Divinity Veloz, a general studies major.
It is not a cheap copy of MySpace, however.
"You have to be invited to Facebook or have a college e-mail address, and even then, you have to confirm," Veloz said.
The school e-mail address is necessary to add a student to the school's network. After being confirmed, students can browse and view all profiles within their network.
Even though Facebook has been online since February 2004, Amarillo College has been included in the site's networking feature only since this summer. Last week, 333 AC students were on the site.
"AC students have been able to use Facebook since late July," said Luke Stephenson, an economics and finance major. "AC had Facebook last year, but nobody could access it because we did not have student e-mail addresses."
That requirement is a feature that protects a student's privacy. Profiles can be viewed only by other members of the same network unless they are added to the student's friends list.
"Facebook takes a lot of security precautions to make sure your profile cannot be viewed by people you do not know or people you do not want to see your profile," Stephenson said.
The connectivity is the most obvious part of the allure.
"The most useful thing about Facebook is that you can post on somebody's 'wall,' or message board," Stephenson said. "It is a great way to keep in touch with friends that are going to college in other cities."
Other students value Facebook for its photo-sharing capabilities.
"I can see what my friends have been up to and show them what I've been up to," Veloz sid.
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