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November 21, 2006, 03:53 PM ET
College Runs Afoul of Facebook
Colleges that turn to Facebook as a creative way to reach out to students may run into a roadblock.
Officials of Ursuline College found that out when they tried to use the popular online social-networking service to create a Web page for the office of counseling and career services.
The page was up for six months before Facebook administrators took it down, says Meegan Cox, coordinator of experiential education at the Ohio college. When Ursuline officials asked why, she says, they were told that the college had violated a policy that forbids organizations from creating Web pages on the site. Facebook, the college was told, is only for individuals’ profiles.
Sure enough, buried in Facebook’s 4,600-word “terms of use” is a rule stating that people cannot “register for a User account on behalf of any group or entity.” See the full article in this week’s Chronicle.
Categories: Student-Life
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