Ive heard some horror stories about employers or admissions ppl looking into students facebook profiles and making decisions based on what they see. i know this sounds ridiculous, but do you guys think there is any validity to this?

of course. Wouldn't you google someone or look on their facebook? I worked for a lady that told me she did this. Anyways, why not just set you fb to private?

of course. Wouldn't you google someone or look on their facebook? I worked for a lady that told me she did this. Anyways, why not just set you fb to private?

lol i know, its not rocket science. facebook is a private company, and they really value privacy. there's 99.99999999% chance that they will never give you information over to admissions committee, and same chance that the admissions committee will ever go that far to get it. Only way I can see this happening is if they got a subpoena and go through a lot of legal loops. So in conclusion, you don't need to untag all those 2,000 pictures of you on the toilet drunk and half naked.

I think it definitely can affect you, our pre-medicine/dental advisor sent everyone an email saying to clean up facebook accounts and it looked at a survery of med/dental schools that check public facebook profiles and how 2/3 of applicants have a facebook profile and after admission the number drops to like 10% because now you're seeing patients and people can just look you up. I would set it to private or clean it up, ie.) political, religious, or any other views. Seems like an invasion of privacy but then again if you have a public profile, then its public domain.

There are SO many privacy options on Facebook these days...you can hide your thumbnail profile pic, you can hide yourself from search....you can essentially make it seem like you don't even have an account. If anyone gets caught with inappropriate things/pictures on Facebook, they're idiots.

You just have to be careful to check your privacy settings regularly. Sometimes facebook will change them after an update so you just wanna make sure everything is still in order.