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Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:58 pm
by InquilineKea
Yes, I know, it's a *very* crazy idea. :p But, you know, you might actually be very surprised.

It probably has a higher chance of actually working when it comes with professors who openly embrace the blogosphere, like Sean Carroll.

Has anyone else tried this?

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:18 pm
by negru
Nah I use vampirefreaks.com for that

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:35 pm
by TheBeast
InquilineKea wrote:
Has anyone else tried this?
Are you implying that you've done this?

Side-note: one of my friends has Carroll as one of his Facebook friends and he usually posts some pretty funny replies to my friend's status updates.

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:04 am
by CarlBrannen
My sister lets her students facebook her. Hilarity ensues when they make up excuses for late homework that conflict with facebook entries such as photos of their wild party.

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:20 am
by HappyQuark
InquilineKea wrote:Yes, I know, it's a *very* crazy idea. :p But, you know, you might actually be very surprised.

It probably has a higher chance of actually working when it comes with professors who openly embrace the blogosphere, like Sean Carroll.

Has anyone else tried this?
Ugggghhhhh, I hate the word blogosphere. Why is it that an artificially delineated piece of the internet needs some special and ridiculous sounding term to describe it. A group of forums isn't referred to as the "forum scene", a collection of wikis isn't called the "wiki-space" and social networks aren't dubbed the "social web-er-verse".

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:46 am
by bfollinprm
TheBeast wrote:
Side-note: one of my friends has Carroll as one of his Facebook friends and he usually posts some pretty funny replies to my friend's status updates.
Same here. As a result he always pops up in the "people you may know" section. So tempting!

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:29 am
by bfollinprm
HappyQuark wrote: A group of forums isn't referred to as the "forum scene", a collection of wikis isn't called the "wiki-space" and social networks aren't dubbed the "social web-er-verse".
copy and paste this to 4chan, and it will be so.

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:05 am
by twistor
bfollinprm wrote:
HappyQuark wrote: A group of forums isn't referred to as the "forum scene", a collection of wikis isn't called the "wiki-space" and social networks aren't dubbed the "social web-er-verse".
copy and paste this to 4chan, and it will be so.
bump

newfags can't triforce

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:40 pm
by negru

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am i doin it rite

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:10 pm
by twistor
noh :/

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:04 pm
by TheBeast
This is why we can't have nice things.

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:10 pm
by HappyQuark
negru wrote:
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am i doin it rite
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Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:47 am
by YodaT
negru wrote:
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am i doin it rite
What... are you 14?

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:35 pm
by twistor
YodaT wrote:
negru wrote:
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am i doin it rite
What... are you 14?
*** or gtfo

Re: Facebooking prospective professors rather than emailing them

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:59 pm
by negru
TheBeast wrote:This is why we can't have nice things.
Sorry, but the PhysicsGRE forum is a troll eat troll jungle.