Facebook led to a couple of controversies in the local community – an online-bullying incident and a situation in which a parent saw some damaging pictures on a teaching intern’s website

Giving out so much personal information, particularly addresses, may be unwise from a personal safety perspective

It may be doubly ill-advised for teachers, who may be called on to advise younger students in safe use of the Web.

A generation ago, any elementary school teacher would have been horrified to find that someone had posted pictures of her drinking at a college party. Today it is the prospective teachers who are doing the publishing, and parents and principals who are horrified

“However, they do not seem to understand the broader implications of networking outside of their group of friends.”

The average pre-service teacher in the study had 102 Facebook “friends”