<p>Can a college administator check my internet's hisrory if im using my own laptop/ipod/phone and my own network? and how can they check your facebook conversation over 4 years?</p>
<p>If you are using a campus Internet connection, all traffic goes through them and they are technologically able to pull whatever they wish.</p>
<p>So, no, there is nothing to be concerned about. You were using your own network (especially the phone), and honestly unless you committed arson or something no one cares enough to do so when they do have the ability.</p>
<p>Well, I typically set up a network in my own dorm room. But I was still accessing the Internet via a school connection – e.g. my computers talked to each other over my own network, but with the outside world via the school.</p>
<p>But yes, the phone thing is independent.</p>
<p>No i mean my network and wifi at my home… Bcuz i heard that they can trace down 4 years worth of facebook info</p>
<p>No. The only way they could get it would be to get a court order from either your Internet company or facebook itself. Of course, if you load all your conversations while you happen to be visiting campus, they can pull all of that.</p>
<p>I HAVE heard that the professional world hires hackers to pull information (particularly pictures) from your FB account…</p>
<p>Given this information (myth?), leadership programs at my school have even advised to delete all “inappropriate” material from our FB’s. They gave a real example of a student who was caught in this situation (am a bit skeptical of this being true, but am even more skeptical by the existing possibility).</p>
<p>As for colleges, I don’t think they would go through this sort of trouble.</p>
<p>The advice to pull inappropriate material has nothing to do with hacking in the traditional sense (writing new software to pull information that a server normally wouldn’t release to you). But many employers do have facebook accounts from which they can access any publicly available information, and some even use “dummy accounts” within a school or geographic network to pull information which is network-available (e.g. available to all of your schoolmates or city-mates).</p>
<p>Facebook has recently eliminated geographic networks partly because of this concern, IIRC.</p>
<p>They specifically said hackers. Many people counter-inquired with the fact that they had all their information set on private, their worst albums set to “Only Me,” and all other materials set to “Friends Only,” and the speakers stood firm saying they understand this but the warning still remains.</p>
<p>Schools don’t hire hackers because, 1) This is not a scifi movie and 2) they don’t need to. A hot chick profile is just as effective. Honestly though, FB stalking is relatively a low occurence. It happens in certain situations (say you are applying to be your class admissions rep or something, maybe they want to make sure you aren’t going to take prospectives binging), but as a whole undergrads just aren’t that important to elicit that level of time usage on a school wide scale.</p>
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It’s probably because they’re wanting to be more safe than sorry. If one photo album slips through the cracks – or if, one day, facebook decides to change its privacy settings – then better to have not put it up there at all. I seriously doubt that people are successfully hacking facebook on a large scale in the traditional sense.</p>
<p>PS: What on earth is the point of putting something on facebook and then setting it to “only me”?</p>
<p>Hey guys… the main isuue is can they check your internet history…if you never been to their campus?</p>
<p>They’d have to get a court order to force you to turn over your computer, or to force your ISP to divulge data affiliated with your IP address.</p>
<p>…so pretty much, no.</p>
<p>Like I said, you aren’t important enough. So whatever part pic you have on facebook a year ago, whatever quiz you had your friend email you the answers to, whatever embarassing or slightly illegal thing you did, they don’t really care. Professors aren’t going to go through every kid’s internet history even if they were able to. You got away with it, you are in the clear, chillax.</p>
<p>hell no of course not</p>