The Scottish teachers were asked to use Twitter and social networking sites with cautious
January 2th evening news, the Scottish teachers have been remind by the local education department, said the use of social networking sites may threat to their work such as Facebook and Twitter.
The Scottish Secondary Teachers Association thought that teachers might leak too much personal informations in the social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The association is also concerned that through these sites, teachers and students may become too familiar with each other.
Recently, the General Teaching Council of Scotland received a large number of related complaints, the Commission is preparing a set of social networking sites using the new approach.
SSTA Assistant Secretary Jim Docherty said in an interview: "Teachers should aware of two things: First, don't tell their social life to everyone, nobody will interested in it, and it's helpless to themselves. Second, not to comment on their works, employers and education issues, these comments might be misinterpreted. "