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Apr-7-2008

How to Become a World-Class Facebook Psychologist

Posted by Michelle Price under Business Thought Leaders, Social Networking, Social Networks, Web 2.0, Women Thought Leaders, facebook

This just in my inbox from my friend Ben, (oops, I mean Howard Campbell).

I told him I thought it would be fun to share and I was going to post this onto my blog. Hey, where else could you get a $4,000 Stanford University syllabus for Facebook for free, become a world class expert on the psychology of Facebook, AND audit the class using their Facebook group, BUT online?

That’s why I love the internet.

Here’s the email:

Michelle,

Can you keep a secret?

This is a $4,000 course and I’m
letting you in the back door…

Psychology of Facebook
is being taught at Stanford

“For ten weeks we will focus
on persuasion psychology in Facebook.”
~BJ Fogg, Stanford University

If you put together
a college-level course
on social networking
what would you call it?

At Stanford, they call it Psychology of FaceBook.

Get the Stanford syllabus here…

( MP: Better look quick, before they find out)

If you are already a member of FaceBook,
then you can join their group online…

Join the Stanford class group on Facebook Here

The kids in this class paid roughly $4,000 each
and you can audit the class for free.

If they ask, tell them Howard Campbell
told you where to look. :-) Shhh.

Ben
aka Howard Campbell

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  1. Cathy Goodwin Said,

    A Stanford course online? As a former f/t college professor…I love it!

  2. Michelle Price Said,

    Yep, that’s what I thought too - there is a collective book being written and as a part of the group you have the opportunity to contribute topics you’d like to see in it. It’s tentatively being called “The Psychology of Facebook”…

  3. BJ Fogg Said,

    Michelle,

    It is definitely an experiment to run a course so openly (at least for me). I do expect that soon we’ll have collaboration with outsiders on this course and others.

    By the way, the syllabus is a living document which is being updated frequently.

    BJ Fogg
    Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab

  4. Michelle Price Said,

    BJ,

    I think it’s a brilliant idea and so in alignment with the transparency that internet empowered consumers are demanding and that social technology (hmmm, did I just coin a new phrase, or is that just saying Open Source technology in a way that makes more sense?) is making available to the world, one brave thought leader at a time ;-).

    Thanks for stopping by.

    Michelle P.

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