Social networks like Myspace and Facebook have completely renovated the way our generation communicates. The opium of Generation Y, Facebook and Myspace have both equally become addictive and manipulative tools to pimp our new college images and social lives to those once ethereal high school prom queens and heart throbs. 

Two years ago, Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg decided to abandon his college loyalties and integrate the rest of the world into his social network. Now, like Myspace, anyone with an email address can sign up to join the once semi-elite Facebook community. We now have the unfortunate ability to add high school students, parents and worst of all – professors.

CNN has released an article about a hot button issue among social network fiends – the pros and cons of friending (or by friended by) professors. Here at College OTR, we are providing you with reasons to reconsider accepting a friend request from your professor.

 - Professors Get Lovin’ Too – By simply clicking Accept, you have just opened up a portal to a world you’ll soon wish you never opened. After just a quick glance at the Facebook profile of a school professor, I just learned that he is bisexual and that he added the SpeedDate application. I used to think professors were like Barbie and Ken in that they did not have genitals but that just crushed my theory. Wow, thanks Facebook!

- Funny Farmers – Professors are people too, oddly enough. And just like us, some we can relate to and others are really, really weird. This other professor’s Facebook profile makes him sound like he’s fresh off the funny farm with lengthy angst-ridden posts about the lifeblood of friendship.

- Welcome Home – As I shuffle through another professor’s photos in his album, I stopped at a series of him and his family. As I look through the endearing photos, I come across one of his daughter picking her nose and now that weird stain on one of last semester's papers is coming back to haunt me. 

- Teacher’s Favorite – We can all agree that Facebook is littered with annoying applications but this professor’s application is an especially demeaning and wildly inappropriate one. On the left side of his profile is the Compare Friends application that compares his student Facebook friends with categories like smarts, hotness and desirability.