weblog of the webmaster of Mackay College

One of the functions of the website of a secondary school can be a social networking website. As social networking sites like Yahoo! 360°,  LinkedIn and MySpace become more popular, it becomes more important that students learn how to present themselves on the Internet. For instance, many employers now collect data about candidate employees by googling the Internet or searching the social networking sites.

Secondary schools have mixed feelings about the big, popular social networking sites. Many schools and public libraries in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia have restricted access to MySpace because it has become "such a haven for student gossip and malicious comments." (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace).

Secondary schools can provide an alternative by giving the students the opportunity to present themselves and their work on the website of the school.