Comments on: Yes, I consider it another reason MySpace should be unblocked.

By: chloe

chloe — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:20:02 +0000

By: chloe

chloe — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:22:17 +0000

wow it makes me so mad about the fact that proxy has just now been blocked on the day of oct,25,07.it makes me furious that i cant get on myspace at school,that was some way to show that school is a good thing.i actualy loved school for myspace because it gives me space to talk to my pinpales and my principles.please if n e one knows how to fix this perposter DO IT

By: toya

toya — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:42:35 +0000

an you unblocked myspace

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:17:24 +0000

By: Jeff Moore

Jeff Moore — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:30:43 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, Steve. Perhaps the point I like to make, more than anything else, is that it was a tough decision to block MySpace, and was taken very thoughtfully and philosophically. (And, it had nothing to do with Dateline NBC.)

By: Steve Dembo

Steve Dembo — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:34:30 +0000

Wow, I didn’t realize just how awful the title was for that post.

I should have titled it, “Yes, I consider it a reason that we should be teaching instead of blocking” or something along those lines.

My main issue is schools blocking it and thinking that doing so absolves them of responsibility of educating students about interacting on sites like that.

Thanks for making a point of that.

By: Jeff Moore

Jeff Moore — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:31:54 +0000

While I’m all for (and am implementing) social networking tools for students, we need to recognize that MySpace is not an appropriate environment for education in the use of those tools. Not only are students already beginning to abandon the site for “cooler” pastures, we in the field are recognizing it for what it really is–a Web 2.0 implementation (granted, ingenious) of spam. If we want to train students in social networking, which I agree will be important socially and otherwise to their future, we need to find rounder training wheels in other services and in tools that we implement on campus. Unblocking MySpace only plays to the worst elements of consumerism. Schools should not be a party to the mass-marketing of products to our students, especially without accepted curricala for navigating those shoals.