According to eSchool News, The Ohio Education Association is recommending that Ohio school teachers not create Facebook or MySpace accounts.
The article describes three questionable accounts in MySpace which were supposedly created by Ohio teachers.
It may be difficult to determine who has created the accounts. They could be impostor accounts created by students.
I can see the next directive from the OEA. It will be about blogs, Flickr, YouTube and Skype. Then we will be told to stop using anything Web 2.0.
I share a lot of information with my students, but I keep my personal life (and theirs) out of it. None of these technologies would be problematic if everyone used common sense. It is a shame that a few teachers have not behaved as teachers should. Even without social networks, these teachers are likely to get in trouble.