The convergence towards the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) offers the Universities the opportunity of, not only redesigning the study plans, but also enhancing the learning process with the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).However, the difficulties of the students and teachers to get familiar to new ICT applications are barriers to the introduction of these technologies.In particular, students prefer the ICT tools that they dayly use in their leisure time, instead of the ones specifically designed as learning platforms.This is the case of the social networks, web platforms that, when used as an aid in the teachnig-learning process, allow a dynamic knowledge transfer, sharing ideas, experiencies, and favoring a fast and active participation of students and teachers.In this work we present the pilot experiment consisting of a platform created in the Facebook social network and used as a tool to support the teaching skills in the subject Network communications and services laboratory", taught in the Telecommunications Engieneering School of the Technical University of Cartagena.This paper shows the results observed and the conclusions extracted with respect to the students' and teachers' involvement, and the advantages and limitatios of the use social networks as tools in the teaching-learning process.