Thing # 20 Social Networking

I looked into a NING and found a very interesting group "Library Technician United". I see potential for this type of social networking as a way to enhance and gather new ideas for our jobs. I wonder about the usefullness of social networking in schools, there is so much potential to go the wrong way and to not be safe in information put out on the web. Would the students see it as an invasion of their "space", would they view us as trying to be cool? How would it be regulated and kept in an educational context? It would require very close monitoring by the teacher / librarian. The jury is still out on this "thing".