<p>If colleges do check your facebook, whats the best way to make your facebook unfindable??</p>
<p>delete it......</p>
<p>go to your privacy and set it where but no can search for you, or just that only your friends can</p>
<p>why would a college check ur facebook?</p>
<p>do colleges even check facebooks?</p>
<p>and if i had a relatively clean facebook profile (meaning i untagged photos of clubbing + parties), but kept photos of like outings with friends, would it be seen as a plus that i have a social life on top of academics?</p>
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and if i had a relatively clean facebook profile (meaning i untagged photos of clubbing + parties), but kept photos of like outings with friends, would it be seen as a plus that i have a social life on top of academics?
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Are you serious?</p>
<p>maybe they do, but just to be safe you should set their profile to private for facebook and myspace, sometimes work check it too</p>
<p>i don't think colleges would check facebook...that's just getting too obsessive</p>
<p>yea, checking 20,000 applicants they never check...it's a myth</p>
<p>i think they have better things to do than background check all 20,000 applicants. it's like them saying "oh you submitted your app but now we requred blood tests and HIV tests as well..." i think they expect you to tel the truth in your app...so why background check on facebook...?
that would be invading privacy basically.</p>
<p>they won't even have the time to check facebook!</p>
<p>I doubt social networking sites are routinely checked but erring on the side of caution is probably a good idea. Post 23 in this thread is sad.<br>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=4815581#post4815581%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=4815581#post4815581</a></p>
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Yes, in fact, admissions officers weigh "has many friends, not unpopular" right up there with having a 4.0 and a 2400. Make sure to write your essay about the superfun time you had at prom.</p>
<p>See these articles from The Brown Daily Herald. The first one is called "Admissions Officers Poke Around Facebook"</p>
<p><a href="http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/09/10/CampusNews/Admission.Officers.Poke.Around.Facebook-2958428.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/09/10/CampusNews/Admission.Officers.Poke.Around.Facebook-2958428.shtml</a>
<a href="http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/10/24/CampusNews/U.Taps.Into.Facebook.To.Keep.Tabs.On.Some.Student.Parties-3052590.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/10/24/CampusNews/U.Taps.Into.Facebook.To.Keep.Tabs.On.Some.Student.Parties-3052590.shtml</a>
<a href="http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/10/25/Editorial/Facebook.Its.Complicated-3056553.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/10/25/Editorial/Facebook.Its.Complicated-3056553.shtml</a>
<a href="http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/09/14/Columns/Nicholas.Swisher.08.Facebook.Ruins.Lives.Destroys.Families-2969261.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/media/storage/paper472/news/2007/09/14/Columns/Nicholas.Swisher.08.Facebook.Ruins.Lives.Destroys.Families-2969261.shtml</a></p>
<p>I totally agree.</p>
<p>Huh. I thought your profile was only visible to those in your network?</p>
<p>Right, but anyone in your network can copy anything and send it where they like.</p>
<p>So then I don't understand why anyone would be panicked about that. A screenshot could always be photoshopped to reflect anything. Even a picture could be easily manipulated in the right hands.</p>
<p>The most an admissions officer could authentically see is your friends list and profile pic.</p>
<p>If there's anything on Facebook (or any social networking site, or actually, any website whatsoever) that somehow reflects the (pick at least one) illegal, irresponsible, immature, inhumane activities you've been doing while in high school, hiding said website doesn't change who you are as a person. I'd like to think that you're being accepted because even though the admissions officer likes your application, you <em>actually</em> reflect that person. You can attempt to pretty up your life now in a vain attempt to hide your deep dark past, or you could have simply never done it.</p>