Join the Swinburne Sarawak network on Facebook!
When Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, three Harvard students started Facebook in 2004, it was originally meant to network Harvard students to keep in touch with each other. By 2005, Facebook grew to include an amazing 800 college networks across the US of A.
Fast forward 2008. Facebook is now home to more than a 100 million active users worldwide.
All this left me wondering why isn’t there a Swinburne Sarawak network Swinburnites can join. There is a network created for our parent campus in Melbourne, but it doesn’t seem to accept our emails.
So yours truly decided to take this matter into his own hands and attempted to create a Facebook network for Swinburne Sarawak. After about a month of email correspondence with the slow-replying Facebook team using my Swinburne webmail, they finally agreed to create a network just for us!
Great! Now how can I be part of it?
Easy.
If you have a Facebook account. Just head to the Settings dropdown and choose ‘Account Settings’. At your ‘My Account’ page, click on the Network tab. If you’re having trouble reaching your Network settings just follow this link: facebook.com/editaccount.php?networks.
At your Network tab, you should have a section on the right that says ‘Join a Network’, looking like this:
Enter ‘Swinburne’ as the Network name and voila! =D
The next steps you’ll have to fill in are pretty much self-explanatory. Even Swinburne Staff and those of you who’ve graduated can join this network!
For the School Email field, you’ll have to enter your email address provided by Swinburne which looks something like ‘<insert your own student id here>@students.swinburne.edu.my’. Facebook would then shoot you a verification email. You’d have to login your Swinburne webmail via this link: studentmail.swinburne.edu.my to verify your address.
Click on the link included in the email and you’re done!
Now spread the news!
P.S: I’m undecided on what should be the name of the network. It’s currently pretty long, ie. ‘Swinburne University of Techonlogy Sarawak’ Our parent campus’s network is just ‘Swinburne’.
What do you guys think? Should it be just ‘Swinburne Sarawak’ or ‘Swinburne (Sarawak Campus)’?
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Thanks for ur effort~~
hay ember!! Gr8 job!! I certainly know how difficult it is to peruse facebook to include a new network. But seems like you have done a good job. I think the network name is a bit too long, Swinburne Sarawak would sound fine actually.
btw is “about this post” on my right ..broken?
Saad, yeah! I requested to change the network name to just Swinburne Sarawak and they did it rather swiftly this time! =D
“About the post” looks fine for me.. in what way is it broken?
why cannot open studentmail.swinburne.edu.my ?
it says 502 Bad Gateway..