In a throwback to the early days of Facebook, the company is introducing "Groups for Schools" - an initiative that will allow student organizations, classes, and other student groups a virtual area for users to share photos, videos, and any other kind of file. This makes me think of a few questions:
1) What does this mean for preserving student organization activity? If these are private groups with ever changing files and media, how can these records be preserved?
2) What are the implications of file sharing through Facebook? What will be the liability issues surrounding copyright infringement? And how can libraries and archives encourage copyright literacy and best practices within the campus?
3) Will this be the push that will make students less hesitant to share their "personal" FB account information with their on-campus student work employers, professors, and other administrative staff? Vice versa: will faculty or staff be hesitant to use these Groups for their class work in order to avoid mixing personal and professional web reputations?
