Editing Why Use UVLe Instead of Facebook

* If you're using Facebook as a group mailing list for your course, [[Why_Use_UVLe_Instead_of_Yahoo_or_Google_Groups|these things apply to you]] ([[Why_Use_UVLe_Instead_of_Yahoo_or_Google_Groups|click here]]).
* [http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2012/03/05/if-youre-not-paying-for-it-you-become-the-product/ "If you're not paying for It, you become the product."]. [[Uvle|UVLe]] is paid for by you, the University, the Filipino people. Team UVLe will not sell you out. They treat their users with respect, [http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/26/tech/social-media/facebook-uproar/ unlike some company out there] [http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/25/opinion/rushkoff-why-im-quitting-facebook/index.html that's making people quit FB]. Team UVLe will not even guess [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=8,600,797 whether you're rich or poor] or [http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/what-your-facebook-likes-betray-about-you whether you're emotionally unstable]. 
[[Image:Screen_Shot_2012-08-22_at_1.07.16_PM.png|300px|thumb|right|a tweet asserting than productivity is better on UVLe than on Facebook]]
* Sure, FB and other social media help launch modern revolutions, but running a class is something else. 
* Conversations in social media (like Facebook) tend to be fleeting, as they're mixed with other streams and streams of messages. On UVLe, conversation is threaded for easy digest. 
* On UVLe learning can be structured easily, without sacrificing "socialization." On Facebook, socialization tends to crisscross groups and postings that are not necessarily relevant to the learning priorities of the class. 
* If you're a teacher, do you really want to "friend" your students (or vice versa) and share with them your Boracay vacation photos? Will your students appreciate your [http://www.ivygateblog.com/2008/12/dartmouth-religion-professor-apparently-clueless-about-the-perils-of-facebook/ Facebook "humor"]? Or will you also [http://www.informationweek.com/smb/network/zuckerberg-photo-flap-4-lessons/240145327 find it "uncool"] when your family and friends share your photos elsewhere? 
* If you're a student, do you really want your "friend" teacher to see your tagged photo from a party, knowing that you haven't submitted your assignment because you couldn't resist the fun?
* Even if you're not "friends" with your students on FB, [http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/10/31/is-facebook-the-place-to-say-it/ FB may not be the place to say it]. 
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[[Image:Frustration_over_Facebook_use_for_academic_purposes.png|300px|a tweet expressing frustration over the use of Facebook for academic purposes]]
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* What happens to your data [http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4208v1.pdf when people "recover" or lose interest in Facebook] and the company folds up like earlier social networking sites like Friendster and MySpace? 

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