Facebook as a learning platform

The aim of this paper is to reflect an experience on the use of the social networks in the university teaching. These are a motivating element of the active paper of the students in their own learning process. The experience took placed during the academic course 2014-2015 in the annual subject of Criminology II. For it, a closed group of Facebook was created by the coordinator of the subject. The results have been analyzed taking in consideration to the entries posted, the commentators made, the "likes" pressed and the general use that they have done of that one. We have checked how its implementation improves the collaborative and informal learning and the generation of shared knowledge.