Thanks to the help of the new Student Recruitment Manager, SRM, from TargetX, colleges can now go and find out what their perspective students are thinking and doing when they post on social networking web sites.
I am not in favor of potential colleges being able to see what I put on the web, but I do think that it is the wave of the future and we should just get used to it. Once something is on the Internet, it is there for ever, for everyone to see and that is a scary thought. For a fear that information may be misconstrued, or misread, I do not want colleges to base their decision on me off of what they see online. I will definitely be more careful and clear about what I post on Facebook and other social networking sites, but if colleges really want to read about me and my opinions, then more power to them, they just have to get by my privacy settings!
I agree that this is just the way things are going to be and we have to get used to it even if we don't want to. I never thought about colleges misunderstanding information. I always just thought about it as if you put something bad up then that was that, but someone may put up something completely harmless but it could be seen as bad. This means we have to be super careful about what we post.
ReplyDeleteI agree how this is the wave of our future. But I think that colleges are making the right choice because people may not be what they seem like on an application. They could be a completely different person and the college would not know. This just shows that we need to be more careful about what we post on the web.
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