Brains working towards machine consciousness

I have been told that some staff at UK HE institutions are creating fake IDs on Facebook and 'friending' students in order to be able to check up on their behaviour.  Now, this is only 'hearsay' - I haven't seen any hard evidence, but I was told by one student that they had been emailed by a member of staff to tell them that fake IDs were being used.

I have a couple of problems with this, apart from the issue of supposedly responsible adults creating IDs on a social network and actively trying to 'friend' their students...