This is an fascinating statement for Kavanaugh and Patterson to make. I think in a sense that it is true; most of the long-time Internet users that I see who have a noticeable presence in some part of the web are people who have joined or formed some sort of community and made themselves an established part of it. I can't speak for Facebook, because I don't actually use the Facebook account that I have, but on Livejournal, I've noticed that the longer users are there, the more likely they are to join some sort of community based on interests and to be an active participant in said community.
A lot of the things that the paper says about Facebook are interesting. While I knew that people sometimes look at a person's Facebook account in order to gauge how to interact with them and potential employers look at a person's Facebook account to see if that person is acceptable hiring material, it hadn't occurred to me that in an educational context, teachers might use Facebook to find out more about individual students.
The NETS-A standard that applies to this article is the fifth standard, the standard of digital citizenship, particularly the last objective, which states that administrators should help cultivate the development of shared cultural understanding and involvement on a larger scale.
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