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When I first signed up for a Facebook account I had no idea what to do with it. On the course management system there is room for students to include profiles, but almost no one ever did. The I saw one guy who said "That's what Facebook is for" on this profile. So I got a Facebook account...and did nothing with it.
Then about a year ago I saw an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education where this guy was talking about using Facebook, as a faculty member. I decided to give it another try...and I found almost no one I knew. Sure, undergrads in my classes, but no one from further back. That all started to change in the last few months. First there were current Trini undergrads, or people in their 20s that I kinda knew. Now the place is over-run with thirty-something Trinis. Suddenly I can find people I knew from UWI - and people I had forgotten I knew from UWI or Naps. Very cool, really.
It's strange to track down people you haven't seen in a decade or more. It's also strange to exchange messages with them. I remember people and incidents very well, but I don't hold onto personalities...until I get a message, and see in their written language reminders of their persona. And it is extremely cool. So now I am walking around with a head full of remembering. Add that to the weather here (wettest weather in decades) and I am a little confused as to whether I am in Oklahoma in 2007 or in Trinidad in the late 80s/early 90s :)
Then about a year ago I saw an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education where this guy was talking about using Facebook, as a faculty member. I decided to give it another try...and I found almost no one I knew. Sure, undergrads in my classes, but no one from further back. That all started to change in the last few months. First there were current Trini undergrads, or people in their 20s that I kinda knew. Now the place is over-run with thirty-something Trinis. Suddenly I can find people I knew from UWI - and people I had forgotten I knew from UWI or Naps. Very cool, really.
It's strange to track down people you haven't seen in a decade or more. It's also strange to exchange messages with them. I remember people and incidents very well, but I don't hold onto personalities...until I get a message, and see in their written language reminders of their persona. And it is extremely cool. So now I am walking around with a head full of remembering. Add that to the weather here (wettest weather in decades) and I am a little confused as to whether I am in Oklahoma in 2007 or in Trinidad in the late 80s/early 90s :)
