Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
For a school district, it is a great location to let the community know what is happening in a brief, up to the minute sentence or two. What is happening in FISD today?
Friendswood ISD recently launched a Twitter account.
FISD posts updates on Twitter to help inform the community of events and important news. We monitor who is signed up or ‘following’ our page. We do not follow any other users. This means that we do not post content that is not approved or reviewed by the school district. We do not link to other sites or content that is not related directly to our mission of education and student achievement
When you sign up to join Twitter you create your own account, and then follow our page.
Other Twitter members can sign up to follow your page.
This can be anyone who joins the site, including groups or organizations. If you have a user who requests to follow your page, and you do not want them to do so, you can adjust the security settings on your personal account to exclude them access to your account.
It’s up to you to control who and what you want to see using your Twitter account.
Online Safety = Common Sense
Just like you're advised when meeting strangers at clubs, school, or work -- you are also advised to proceed with caution online. We can only control our site and our posts. If a user has an account on Twitter other users can approach them as followers.
Please use caution and common sense online.
If you find content or information that is questionable, or are approached to join a group or redirect to links on remote sites, be sure you know who and what you are allowing. Accessing unknown sites can open your computer up to attack and spyware.
Social networks are a great platform for groups to communication and build relationships. The nature of social networks is to allow all users the capability to join in open communication. Unfortunately, some people may be looking to abuse or manipulate this opportunity and try to ruin the experience for all users. By being aware of your surroundings and whom you are talking to, you should be able to safely enjoy social networking online. Just use common sense and listen to your inner voice; it will tell you when something doesn't feel right.
We want everyone to have a great online experience. We hope this helps you feel safer about using Twitter and other social networking tools.
