<p>Just read this article and found it interesting. Made me think of how much control should administration or coaches have over social networking sites??? I think the implementation of new policies will be interesting to follow.
What do you think?</p>
<p>Players</a> monitor social network profiles with a hawkeye - USATODAY.com</p>
<p>Athletes represent the university & playing on the team is a privlege, so I believe the school has every right to control the sites. I don't think there is an athlete on any campus that is not well informed of rules & regulations about substance use & other behaviors. (Of course, not every school punishes violators, but that's another issue.)</p>
<p>What do you think about holding every student to the same standards as the athletes? Don't they all represent the University?</p>
<p>I suppose all students, at least tangentially, represent the U. But any time an athletic team, music group, academic team, etc. is sent out to compete or perform under the name of the U, it is an entirely different level of representation. I think the standards should definitely be higher.</p>
<p>If Joe College gets busted for a DUI it barely makes the paper in the fine print. If Joe College, starting football player get's a DUI it makes the local TV news and front page of the paper. That's just how it works.</p>
<p>What about the top drama student who always has the lead in the plays? Or one of the first chairs in the orchestra? Or the editor of the school newspaper? Or best engineering student? Or any student at the University?</p>
<p>I actually agree that students should be responsible and follow college rules and policies. I'd just like to see the rules and policies to be enforced equally. I think kids who post photos of wrong doing are just asking for trouble.</p>
<p>never going to work
if they monitor facebook people will use other sites
college students drink and generally do lots of stupid things always have always will. some get busted, most dont. nothing really to see here</p>
<p>Or couldn't you have more than one Facebook site; one where you use a privacy setting and one that anyone could access with a slightly different name spelling?</p>
<p>or a nickname etc.</p>
<p>yes and this is obviously being done.</p>
<p>Question from a technology lacking mom:
My daughter assures me that while there is nothing detrimental on her Facebook, she has all the privacy settings in place so employers, unless they asked her to log in right there and then, could not see her page. Is this true, or is there a way that employers, etc. are getting around the privacy settings?</p>
<p>if they're really dedicated they could look up her school and make an account with the name of someone who doesnt have one and friend her or someone else could show them her page</p>
<p>but no, not easily</p>