Abacwaningi esusa idatha umfundi kusuka Facebook, ahlanganisiwe it amarekhodi eyunivesithi, wasebenzisa elihlanganisiwe idatha ucwaningo, bese nabo nabanye abacwaningi.
Kusukela ngo-2006, unyaka ngamunye iqembu oprofesa nabasizi ucwaningo esusa amaphrofayli Facebook yawo wonke amalungu bafundzi bemnyaka wa-2009 at a "ohlukahlukene ekolishi yangasese Ambulas US" Le datha longitudinal kusuka Facebook nabangane bathanda zamasiko kwaba ahlanganisiwe ngedatha ekolishi okumalungana dorms zokuhlala abafundi 'futhi majors academic. Lokhu ahlanganisiwe idatha amelwe unento ewusizo olukhulu, abacwaningi, futhi yasetshenziswa ukwakha ulwazi olusha ngezihloko ezifana nendlela social networks ifomu (Wimmer and Lewis 2010) kanye nendlela amanethiwekhi kanye nokuziphatha co-ziphenduke social (Lewis, Gonzalez, and Kaufman 2012) . Ngaphezu kokusebenzisa la idatha ngomsebenzi wabo siqu, ukunambitheka, Ties, futhi ucwaningo team Isikhathi wenza idatha ekhona kwezinye abacwaningi, ngemva kokuthatha ezinye izinyathelo zokuvikela ubumfihlo abafundi 'futhi kuhambisana nezifiso National Science Foundation ( okuyinto okuyiwona owafaka izimali zawo isifundo) (Lewis et al. 2008) .
Ngeshwa, ngemva nje kwezinsuku idatha kwenziwa abanye abacwaningi esephetha ngokuthi isikole Umbuzo wawuwukuthi Harvard College (Zimmer 2010) . I Taste, Ties, futhi Time abacwaningi ngecala "ukwehluleka ukunamathela ezindinganisweni ucwaningo zesimilo" (Zimmer 2010) ngokwengxenye ngenxa yokuthi abafundi wayengazange enikeziwe imvume unolwazi (zonke izinqubo zase sibuyekezwe futhi agunyazwe ngu IRB Harvard kanye Facebook). Ngaphezu sokugxekwa izifundiswa, ticashunwa temaphephandzaba uvele enezihloko ezinjengesithi "Harvard Abacwaningi Amanga of lokwephula Inqubomgomo Students '" (Parry 2011) . Ekugcineni, kudathasethi isuswe kusuka ku-inthanethi, futhi manje-ke asikwazi esetshenziswa ngabanye abacwaningi.