ONLINE EXCLUSIVE | UPDATED DECEMBER 6
New Internet addictions: Facebook and Myspace

Students in colleges and universities all over the United States are registering and logging onto www.facebook.com and www.myspace.com daily, while anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 new members register each day for Facebook alone.

These sites, which offer personalized Web sites where members can discuss their interests, share music and photos and contact old and current classmates, are becoming addictive for many.

“The other day, my roommate and I were seriously contemplating either going to class or going home to log onto Myspace,” said Jennilyn Weed, a junior from Beaverton, Ore.

It is not unusual for users to log onto their pages every day. Sometimes, it is more often than that.

Allen Fordham, a sophomore from Weyers Cave, Va., logs on to his Facebook account approximately three times a day.

Fordham is also a member of the Facebook group called “I Check Facebook Late at Night Instead of Doing Homework,” which currently has about 160 members, all from BYU-Idaho. [read more]

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Technology can be a crutch or an enhancement

The truth: there exist some teachers and students out there who are oblivious to technology. But bless their hearts, they certainly do want to try, don’t they?

Perhaps it wouldn’t be so annoying if they would just give up and move on to the lesson, but there are times when teachers become insistent on showing a PowerPoint presentation or movie clip that it becomes a bit obsessive and takes up a significant amount of the class period.

What’s the moral of the story? [read more]

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