Rate My Professors - SNS Pt 1

OK New Media classmates, in this post I will be reviewing the social networking site called Rate My Professors.

We have all had professors that we liked, disliked and downright hated in our college careers. This site gives us the chance to speak up and let the world (and potential future students) know what professors are the best, worst, hottest and weirdest at our colleges.

Viewers/Members

If you want to make a post about a professor, you must be a member. With this, members can make individual review entries for current/past professors.

However, anyone can go to the site and search professors by school or name. There you can look up a teacher by last name or department and view their total ratings read reviews by past students, view their overall quality, easiness and know if they are "hot" which is indicated by a tiny little red chili pepper.

Users can also share this information through email, Facebook and/or Twitter.

Features

There is a forum which is basically just a general forum where members can post under very broad subjects. Such as:

• Why Do Students Like to Procrastinate?
• Problems Trying to Add New Professors
• Drugs in Society
• Cool Song!

As you can see, these subjects are pretty well, general and get a little weirder as you continue to read. I don't even know why some of these members are posting this stuff, but whatever.

As far as audio/video uploading, I did not come across any member uploads. I did however find videos from professors who were "striking back." Such as this guy, Daniel Blum, a History Professor in Buffalo who saw reviews from students that said his class was boring. Under the video is a long list of comments from users who react to it.

All in all the site gives non-members a lot of useful information to view and members the chance to speak up and perhaps make an impact on a students future choice in teachers.