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It is important for educators to know how social networking works for a number of reasons.  To start, teachers need to know how social networking works to prevent the wrong information reaching the public world.  Keeping up with today's networking helps teachers to connect to the world that the students are living.  It also allows teachers to connect with each other and help become better teachers. I have been a member of facebook for a number of years; so I did not gain much insight to the facebook world.  I like how facebook reports what my closest friends are doing and posting.  I do not like how people can send you silly game request.  Those drive me crazy.  I do like facebook over Twitter.  I think part of that is I am more comfortable using facebook over twitter.  I do not think that social networking has a place in the classroom.  There are too many unknowns that can be found in the social networking that may upset parents.