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Remember when Facebook was Thefacebook, a site whose access was restricted to Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, and other Ivy League schools? With Facebook Groups for Schools, Facebook has gone back to basics.
On Wednesday, Facebook launched Groups for Schools, which creates school-specific groups.
To join, students must demonstrate that they're affiliated with the school by providing an associated email address, and only enrolled faculty and students are allowed - no alumni. Moreover, if a student graduates, he or she will be removed from the group.
The primary focus of Groups for Facebook appears to be a social network tied to each school, with an emphasis on sharing files and activities that can be used for classwork. "When you join a group within the school community, you can share files, create events, message other members and stay up-to-date on what's happening around campus, according to a Facebook FAQ.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402919,00.asp

Facebook link:
https://www.facebook.com/about/groups/schools

I saw this on my facebook recently... pretty cool as I use facebook a ton for networking all of the groups/classes I'm in at school. Seems like you can file share up to 25mb as well. I'm just concerned with who's the admin of the school groups and how much information they have access to. I wouldn't want my school's administrators prying eyes on my facebook.

 

[Jim E. Rossler]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402919,00.asp
I'm just concerned with who's the admin of the school groups and how much information they have access to. I wouldn't want my school's administrators prying eyes on my facebook.

Don't put it on facebook or the internet in general if you dont want school officials or prospective employers to see it.

 

[Zyzyxxz]

A nice feature, these days with everyone on Facebook its hard to organize them all. Be cool if it had something like circles in Google +

 

[jamesinclair]

Facebook stopped being useful when you were no longer able to narrow down searches for females living on the same floor in your dorm tower