Facebook.com helps students network with friends on campus, those at other universities and even friends in high school. Now, facebook is doing more than simply bringing students together. Have you "friended" your college president yet?
For some faculty members, such as Princeton's own President Tilghman, facebook friends are few and far between. "SHirley Tighman" joined facebook on Jan. 26, but has yet to confirm any facebook friends.
In an e-mail yesterday, Tilghman said she did not set up her facebook account and doesn't know who did. "Hmmmmm," she mused.
Profiles are created and confirmed using an authorized University email address, and Tilghman's profile shows her correct Princeton address.
It remains unclear exactly how Tilghman's account was set up. Facebook representatives did not return a request seeking comment.
"Tighman" is not the first among Ivy League presidents to have a facebook account. Her counterparts at other universities, however, outrank her in their number of facebook friends.
University of Pennsylvania president and former Princeton provost Amy Gutmann leads the pack with 2,067 facebook friends. In a distant second, Brown president and former Princeton vice provost Ruth Simmons has 1,373 friends.
Harvard president Larry Summers, who recently resigned his post under heavy criticism from faculty members, is pictured in his profile as a cat lying on a pink floral bedspread and lists only three friends on his account.
Though students showed wide support for Summers after his resignation — going so far as to chant "stay, Larry, stay" and "five more years" outside his office — most of them didn't seem to take the time to "friend" their outgoing leader.
Dartmouth president James Wright is apparently a very special person, and has three separate accounts set up in his name. Between the three personalities, Wright has a total of 158 friends.
The presidents of Cornell, Yale and Columbia have not yet had accounts set up in their names on facebook.
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