I joined Facebook myself one year after a notice in the newsletter at NJCL convention about an NJCL group on it. Not long after, a few of my students found me there...at this point, most of my JCL members and a few other students have found me, though I don't point it out to them in class. It's proved useful for communicating with my club officers because that's the one site I can count on them to check often enough that I'll get a response! I like the Events feature too; I can set up club events there and send an invitation out to all the club members so they can add it to their calendars.

I have had a few kids practice their Latin conversation skills with me in Facebook chat. And a while back I discovered that you can set the interface language to lingua Latina! After that, when I pointed it out to one of my students, she gave it a try too and found that it helped her with vocab a little...it's a limited range of words of course, but all terms that the kids know very well from constant use, so switching them to Latin lets them make a connection.

Of course the side effect of all this usefulness is that when the kids "friend" you...you also get updates when you're logged in on what *they're* doing, and at times that is a little more than I really wanted to know!