One's privacy would be
disturbed as the usage of SNSs is not guarded. Take Facebook as an example,
teachers are to befriend their students if they want to conduct activities and
discuss about “school-related matters”.
When students are able to access the profiles of their teachers and vice versa,
one’s privacy will clearly be disturbed. As much as it benefits both parties’
academic wise, there are risks to be taken also. The private lives of the
students can be observed by the teacher and can sometimes be made an issue in
class, like how a student spends more time on Facebook rather than studying. Or,
for a teacher, students are able to see what they are doing outside the
classroom. Imagine yourself being a teacher, and your friends post something
inappropriate that can be seen by your student, how would your reflect your
image as a teacher?
In addition, there will
also be risks of teachers forging inappropriate relationship with their
students. As much as there are rules and guidelines to keep a professional teacher-student
relationship, there are some who would abuse the convenience of keeping in
contact with each other. Some teachers seek to establish social contact with
their students for the purpose of strengthening their relationship with one another;
this is not supposed to happen. Teachers are to stay in the boundaries of a
professional teacher-student relationship. Hence, one’s privacy, regardless of
the teachers’ or students’ will be affected somehow.
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