<p>Hm, I had never thought to google myself before. I knew my blog wouldn't come up because I never use my full name or email address on there--what did come up was my National Forensics League profile, NFAA awards, a review I wrote of a concert, and a newspaper article about a school science competition. Also some random geneaology stuff and apparently there's a hospice nurse with the same name as me. But other than that...good stuff.</p>
<p>heh, a few pages ago, someone commented that you shouldn't post anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to see...</p>
<p>some of you might be amused to hear me say that I write my blog with almost the sole purpose of keeping my parents updated on what I'm up to! :-D anything I don't want them to see (which, given the types of things I post, is very rare) is posted friends-only or private. (and for what it's worth, my mother has a facebook account...) also, anything I post about other people is posted using only their first names or their initials, etc.</p>
<p>i feel like as long as we're careful about what informatino we put out there and how it's linked to our real names/addresses/etc, then prospective employers/adcoms will either (a) not be able to find our info, or (b) not find anything objectionable once they do. if you're stupid about what you put online, all bets are off, but as long as you realize that you need to be careful about it, I don't think there's any reason NOT to get into things like LJ, CC, etc.</p>
<p>just a thought.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm similar to athena_wiles.</p>
<p>Sometime about two years ago after CTY, I decided to get a Xanga to do the whole blog thing. Originally it was just the same old, and today I did blablablablablablablabla. But after a while I started reflecting on my life more, expressing my opinions more, and pointing out little peculiar things that I found funny in daily life.</p>
<p>Now, in my past I've constantly been running back and forth about how I want to live the rest of my life and have, at times, been pretty depressed. In my blog I'd very clearly spell out everything that was wrong in my life.</p>
<p>I began mentioning to my parents a lot but not giving them the address. Then we worked out an agreement that I would give them the adress if they promised to not bring it up in conversation unless I did.</p>
<p>I think they got a true understanding of what I was really thinking in those "teenage years" that baffle so many parents. Then again I don't drink or do drugs, so it wasn't all that much of a risk. You'd say, well why didn't I just talk to them? Well, I did, and I did a lot more than I bet most other kids do. But this was a great catalyst for sparking taboo's of parent/kid talks.</p>
<p>Not to mention, like 30 kids read my blog a day. I really can't imagine writing all that much when I lived in such a podunk town.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, I haven't written in my in over a month, sigh, blogging my life now is like writing [insert SUPER long adventure book here]</p>
<p>Anyways, in conclusion, I think my blog has really been an important part of my last few years of highschool, and still is a good way for people to catch up on what I'm doing.</p>
<p>Then again, I'm a good kid and I don't really have to worry about accidentally putting up drunk stories, because I don't have any.</p>
<p>i'm not really the blog type but more of the journal type. you know, non-electronic. :D</p>
<p>so if ever the adcoms want to research about me, they can't. haha. unless they know my friendster or ym.</p>
<p>hideANDseek -- it's well beyond getting googled. In particular adcoms can access facebook profiles and myspace blogs -- if you've got something on there or other sites like xanga, etc., edit them or just get rid of them. They will go online to these sites to get more info on a candidate, believe me!</p>
<p>or if you don't have one, they'll ask the NSA for a hand. :D</p>
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<p>How can they access facebook accounts? Access is limited only to students from the same school as the applicant.</p>
<p>Alumni and staff can also access facebook (but can only see profiles of people at their schools).</p>
<p>Access is not limited only to students. Anyone with an email address from that school can make a facebook account.</p>
<p>If the college admissions folk were to google me or my name, they would find the following: </p>
<pre><code> 1. Robert Venosa, the fantastic-realism artist who was under the tutulage of Ernst Fuchs and Salvador Dali. He is acutally my great-uncle (my grandfather's brother).
The town of Venosa, Italy in the region of Basilicata. And possibly some information pertaining to Horace, the Roman poet who was born there, or Count Guisaldo di Venosa; not much about me there.
Oddly, a species of organism (no idea why).
I don't know if my Xanga or Myspace would show up unless they specifically looked on those sites themselves, but there's nothing on them which would make me look bad (Xanga is mostly a string of long, political diatribes, but nothing subversive lol)
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<p>i googled my name and there are so many people who aren't me who share the same avatar... it's bit weird.</p>
<p>There's absolutely no record of my real (full) name on the internet. I don't use it for blogs etc. and I'm not famous in my community xD. Mygu chinese name used to give me this artist, but now it's a bunch of science stuff that I don't feel like reading (someone in ACS has the same name as me). My english name is still this chinese actor who, in my opinion, isn't very pretty. Googling my email gave me my livejournal account and a bunch of art sites that I frequent such as an oekaki board. Of course, there was also my dA. </p>
<p>Someone in my school, brilliant girl, never ever got into any sort of trouble, was upset one day and wrote something about a teacher in her xanga. The school suspended her until the social justice group got together and protested and a girl who is now homeschooled but used to go to my school threatened to sue the school. <em>sighs</em> No one was really sure if the school was allowed to do that. Just thinking about the teachers browsing our blogs is kind of scary... Before her, 2 boys were suspended for writing about how they wanted to blow up the school on their deadjournal...</p>
<p>Folks - I'm a newspaper reporter, and I'm writing an article about whether college admissions committees or high school admissions folks are looking at MySpace or Facebook. There are so many rumors, but very few actual stories. If anyone knows of an actual example, please, please email me!</p>
<p>If you google my name you get the websites of the amateur-movies and professional plays i've been in; an article about me taking college courses when i was eleven; an article about the homeschooling community which includes a section about me; and a ton of references to the MLA format guide which uses a play i was in for 'how to cite a theatrical play'. I'm not gonna complain :P</p>
<p>plus, i use my livejournal now exclusively for bad literary stuff (some inspired from my own life but nothing explicitly nonfiction), which i think is healthy, as it crosses an addiction with a useful pursuit (regular writing). when i wrote about my life, it tended to mess up conversations as people had already read whatever stories i had to tell etc. plus it was kind of boring.</p>
<p>JessicaWriter, go online (or try a library if it's not online?) and look at the past few issues of the Chronicle of Higher Education. I can't remember when it was, maybe in the past month, but they had an article on discliplinary stuff that resulting from college students' Facebooks and Myspaces'. I don't think it said anything about admissions, though.</p>
<p>When I google my name, I get a lot of supplemental results. Is there anyway to remove supplemental results? I submitted my site before to one of those search engine things...and I'd kinda like to remove those searches.</p>
<p>i sit in our family room and kitchen and post while my mom looks on.
Doesn't common sense say don't ever write anything down that can be used against you. </p>
<p>as for admissions reading these things...i question the amount of time they would have to do that on a regular basis. now if they log on for the heck of it and see something unpleasant, that i can see. and if you really want to go to a certain school you aren't trashing it online. </p>
<p>at my hs, they actually have "spies" that check out my space, xanga, and im and if it is bad, you are suspended....so i am used to that.</p>
<p>They suspend you for a website?</p>
<p>Is that even legal (I mean, it happens OUT of school)?</p>
<p>Eek, "spies"?</p>
<p>maddog, would you mind either posting or sending me a private message so we could talk a bit more about the high school spies reading up on myspace, and what they're looking for?</p>
<p>Oh, and PS - thanks gloaming - I'll check out that story at the chronicles.</p>
<p>makes me glad i dont do anything that would keep them from admitting me anyway =)</p>
<p>but i do think in some regards that its silly, because i know when you google my name, nothing comes up that actually has anything to do with me for the first ten pages (i didnt look beyond that). but what if they thought one of the people they found was me, and they didnt like what they saw? i hope admissions people use great discretion if they do this at all.</p>
<p>now emails you can definitely be traced through, though. one of mine brings up nothing because its so new, and the other one just brings up a bunch of references to when i was into the "freebie scene" (i.e. completing offers to get points to win free ipods, psps, etc.)</p>