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Is it OK to be Facebook friends with your professors? Intel investigates.

3/1/11, 2:36 pm

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So you’re sitting in class dozing in and out of that 10 a.m. haze where you’re not quite awake or dreaming but are still cognizant enough to take (somewhat shitty) notes. Your bespectacled, attractive-in-a-European-kind-of-way professor is droning on and on about opportunity cost or GDP or something like that, and your friend sitting beside you is already fast asleep. In an effort to keep yourself from very obviously falling asleep, you log on to Facebook and start browsing. Suddenly, in a bright, white spark of clarity, a question pops in to your head: Is my professor on Facebook? Sure, he’s old, but not too old, and with half a billion users surely he must be one of them. Eureka! He is! Now the even more confounding question pops in to your head: Should I friend him?

And thus, you’re stumped. Luckily Buzzard was curious about this very situation as well, so we took it upon ourselves to ask around and get the skinny on what the proper Facebook etiquette is. Read the results, after the jump.

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