Do you, Mrs. Fields?

Oh Facebook. Monopolizer of procrastination, apparent facilitator of statutory rape and, wait, catalyst of campus politics?

Ditching its reputation for superficial communication via bumper stickers, Facebook is starting to play a role in Undergraduate Assembly policy.

At last Sunday’s UA meeting, representatives discussed a proposal that would extend the move-out deadline in the spring to allow students more time to pack after finals.

The UA started working on the proposal after a Facebook group was created that expressed students’ frustration with the previous move-out deadline of 16 hours after finals. The UA is proposing that students get 40 hours after finals to pack up their stuff and leave to let Housing and Conference Services pick up their trash.

The UA and Facebook? An unlikely couple, but a compatible one nonetheless. Students are increasingly using Facebook as a forum for discussion of campus and national issues. It only makes sense that the UA look to Facebook for ideas of how to improve student life.

Now, if only Congress would follow the UA’s example and pay more attention to Facebook. Then we would surely have lower gas prices in addition to an eradicated Iran.

Big Business should also look into using Facebook to learn more about what their customers want. Mrs. Fields would probably stop putting raisins in her cookies if she did some marketing research on Facebook.

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