Facebook etiquette question: Facebook is suggesting I "friend" a couple of celebrities, I guess because of the mutual friends thing. But are you really supposed to offer to friend people you don't know either in meatspace or electronically? This is just Facebook trying get everyone to friend everyone else for marketing purposes right?

Not sure it's a technology question, but if the celebrity doesn't want you as a friend, they don't have to accept the offer.

I don't think "supposed to" comes into it. Different people play by different rules.

Typo, different people have different rules on FB--some friend everyone they've ever met once--you go out at night, meet a friend of a friend and are like "awesome, I'll add you on FB!" Or may have never met their friend's sister, but have heard about her and commented after her, and voila! Friends! Others only have actual close friends. ...Personally, I wouldn't friend a celebrity I didn't actually know, because I figure that's what a fan page is for, but...

javachik, I didn't know that, but now I'm so confused, because I apparnetly already had capslock on, but swear it hasn't been working...hmmmm.

Yeah, I don`t friend celebs I don`t know in meatspace (well, colin excepted probably) but that`s just an arrogance thing on my part. The celebs I know are fine with it and friend everybody.
 
Marketing doesn`t come into it, other than social media`s regular methodologies. It really is just the common friends thing.

meara, the shift button will turn blue when you've successfully engaged caps lock.

I figure that's what a fan page is for, but...

Some people never got around to making those, and use their friends pages for those. And then butt up against the upper friends limit.

I have only friended celebs who I (a) like, and (b) know someone I know.

So, I got Colin. I need to be more FB slutty, obviously!

I HAVE friended a bunch of my old students. I figure they are all graduated now, and I love keeping in touch with them. I'm very aware that FB is completely public, even with the "privacy" options, and it's a great way to keep in touch with all kinds of people.

I just don't understand how people can think it is not a public forum.

Calling all amych: what's your reaction this this? (Not the jalibreaking, the academic drm-disabling stuff) [link]

what's your reaction this this?

That it's going to make my life a whole hell of a lot easier: in the past, I've granted a lot of clipping requests, or agreed to train people to do it themselves, and then had to say after the fact, "oh, but we can't do it with *this* particular DVD even though it's fair use". I wish they'd gone all the way to "all educational use" -- there were related petitions for K12 and student educational uses (the latter was granted only for film students) -- but it's a big improvement over the version from the previous comment period, which was weirdly limited to film and media faculty only.

(I'm not sure if you knew it, but an academic copyright "known radical" of our acquaintance wrote one of the several petitions to expand access to all faculty.) (And of course the OTW was heavily involved in the remix vidding ruling.)

What's the legal definition of "film student"?