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A new facebook group has just been launched!

"We Bang Steinways!" is a community for all piano fans, piano students, pianists, and piano majors from conservatories and universities across the world!

If you are already on the facebook, simply visit the following link and request to join (You will have to be logged in):

http://ucsb.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204722457

Also if you'd like to represent your piano studio/school, contact the admin with the information including your piano teacher's name and the school you are attending (or have graduated from). And you will be renamed as a representative to your piano studio!

Now we can easily contact piano majors across the world, and gain crucial information about each piano professor, studio, and the music school itself.

COME JOIN US!

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I tried to join, but it wouldn't let me because I don't have a college or work e-mail address.

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What's a "facebook"?

Is the distinction in being associated with a group called "We Bang Steinways" not somewhat dubious?

Facebook is an online yearbook for high school and college students. It's kind of like a tightly controlled MySpace - You have to register with your official school email address and you can only view people at your own school.

They also let faculty in, so I have account as well. (A lot of faculty use it because students post pictures and we can learn people's names in our larger lecture classes. The funny thing is, most students don't know we're there, so it's always kind of interesting when we see beach pictures from that weekend when they were "too sick to get out of bed, much less do homework.")

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Kreisler :

Thank you for the explanation.

Regards,

Kriesler:

Thank you for the explanation. Now I'll be more careful with my facebook account.

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How do I join when I don't know how to get to my college e-mail?

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This is great guys... in just one day period, there are 100+ members!

Please send me your teacher/school info so that I can name you as a representative of your studio. For more info, read the group profile.

You can't. You have to have a valid educational domain to register.

You can view anyone at any school who has listed you as a 'friend'. But if you aren't listed as a friend, you can still see someone's profile if that person is at your school (and hasn't blocked all non-friends).

Hahahah, the demographic of people is mostly the same as any conservatory. Asian girls and skinny white guys ahoy!

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LOL oh come on, it's not THAT bad... there are some white girls and asian guys too!

just cuz you're one of the "skinny white dudes".

Btw, that's a kickass recital flyer!

Thanks! It was for one of my all-Messiaen concerts a few years ago. Lots of people were like "cool flyer, who is that," heh.

How would you go about doing this in the UK? I assume when I am at Uni you get provided with a free email account, would I just use that?

In order to join Facebook, your school has to be 'on the list.' Check here to see if it is:

http://www.facebook.com/help.php?tab=newnetwork


If it's not on the list, you can send in a request.

You SHOULD be able to join... there are members in the community from England... I know that there are couple Oxfordians. If your school is not on the list, e-mail the facebook administrators and they will add your school! But go sign up for the facebook first and check.

www.thefacebook.com

whoa... ur kiddin'!

an ALL-MEssiaen program?! That's nuts...

Btw that IS your face, right?

With regard to excuses, there's a great story of a putdown a female professor is supposed to have delivered to one of her students. Standing in front of the class, she said, "The final examination is next Thursday. I will accept absolutely no excuses from any of you for not being there." The smart alec guy in the back of the class shouts, "What if I'm in a state of total, complete, and utter sexual exhaustion?" The professor responded, "Then I guess you'll have to write the examination with your other hand."

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Sounds discriminatory. I'm 62 and haven't been a college student in decades, and have no intention of being one. So I'm left out. Have a good time by yourselves.

Tomasino

We are having a great time, thanks for asking.

Maybe you could walk over to University of Minnesota tomorrow and get hired as an adjunct professor of piano? Then you can join us!

Otherwise, we'll just continue to enjoy ourselves.

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Stupid facebook! I still can't believe I joined it.

if you STILL haven't found a reason to join us...

"The 5 Browns" are now in the group!

Click on the following link to join (You must have a facebook account):

http://ucsb.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204722457

didn't mean to intrude, but just saw this on CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/08/02/colleges.online.warning.ap/index.html

Facebook is actually one of the better ones. You have to have a valid school address, and there are plenty of options for what you do and do not want to post and/or be visible.

The problems with MySpace and Facebook and other similar sites is not inherent in the sites. The problem is that so many of the users have no clue how public it is. (Which is one of the reasons I'm often telling students that faculty and administrators have access to Facebook.)