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January 18, 2007, 01:06 PM ET
Facebook for Your Phone
For professors who already think cellphones in the classroom are a menace, here’s a harrowing piece of news: Facebook, the wildly popular online social network, has unveiled its very own mobile-phone service.
Facebook Mobile lets students browse other people’s profiles, send out photos and personal bulletins, and use the site’s most-inscrutable feature to digitally “poke” their peers. “Remember that time when you needed to call someone, didn’t have their number, but you knew that it was on Facebook?” asks Mark Slee, a Facebook engineer, on the company’s blog. “Yeah, that was the worst. Fear no more.”
From Facebook’s standpoint, the move to mobile phones seems to make plenty of sense. But it really does sound like the kind of ready-made time waster that could drive frazzled professors batty. —Brock Read
Categories: Student-Life
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