<p>Even when images are not associated with your name, DOB, address,… I think it’s possible that there will be software to identify people by images later. We are on the fast digital age here.</p>
<p>Well what I learned is that you may have your profile safe but if you do anything on someone else’s (like comment or wall post). They might be able to see it.</p>
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<li>Set privacy settings at highest level.</li>
<li>Sit back and relax, knowing that your profile won’t be seen by Adcoms.</li>
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<li>Then get sucker-punched when the Adcoms see your other activity that’s not on your profile, but never knowing that’s what happened because they don’t say “why” in your rejection letters.</li>
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<p>More and more high school students I know are deleting their Facebook accounts or suspending their accounts during their senior year. I think that’s a much smarter move on their part, if only because it will free up time to write those essays.</p>
<p>Beware urban legends like how some kid got sucker punched when an adcom hacked his facebook privacy. “Never knowing” why you were rejected…despite all that advice on CC from other hs kids, even a few juniors. </p>
<p>Really. Think about this. Adcoms only start with 12-15 minutes per app- why would they spend that time (or extra time) hunting down hundreds or thousands of applicants in fb? Unless there is good reason. Worry more about google. Or, worry about your own honesty on the app.</p>
<p>^^ Of course, we can’t know for sure, but I’d guess they don’t check the facebook account of every applicant. They might check admitted students only, just to make sure they’re not admitting an ax murderer, or to see if the student has posted grossly derogatory things about the school.</p>
<p>D’you think they’re going to be really thorough when they do it? I mean, if you google my name for example the first thing that comes up is a facebook page entitled ‘when in the hell am i going to need to use parabolas’ and then underneath it says <my name=“”>likes this and <my name=“”>‘YES’ . I mean, that looks kinda incriminating and anti academic, but if you actually click on the thing you’ll see that i liked and commented on a review someone else gave of said group: “1 star cuz it’s the lowest star rating I could give.
You kids think that parabolas are useless? Damn kids, you need to realise that maths is everywhere. Even in normal conversation I can use maths to better explain imagery and the qualities of things. Parabolas are just great and I plan on using them for years to come.”</my></my></p>
<p>A little common sense goes a long way and ANY public website (not just Facebook) where you might be posting personally recognizable information about yourself.</p>
<p>@ squidgetx: I don’t think they would care about that in the slightest, even if you were supporting the group, not the review. Hating parabolas is not going to hurt your chances. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if they found pictures of you drinking and partying, or even just holding one of those red cups that usually have alcohol in them, it might hurt your chances. Basically anything that appears deviant could hurt you.</p>
<p>Don’t provide accurate social networking information. Problem solved.</p>
<p>Even having “politically incorrect” ideas can bear a negative effect.</p>
<p>Are u serious? Parabolas?</p>
<p>They don’t give a crap about anything unless you have an article saying you were arrested, or involved in some mischief or have bad pictures with alcohol etc…</p>
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<p>This is true.</p>
<p>The good news is that FB now lets you see who else can see a post or photograph. If you see an icon of a globe, the post or photograph is visible to the Public. It may even be visible to search engines, so it may appear if someone queries for your name. An icon of a person means the post or photograph is visible to that person’s friends only. An icon of a gear can mean Friends of Friends or Custom. You can figure out which it is by hovering your mouse pointer over the gear.</p>
<p>Any comments you make on the post or photo will have the same visibility as the original post or photo.</p>
<p>You can look at the postings on a Wall to learn the visibility of postings on that Wall by people other than the Wall’s owner. The visibility will be the same for all postings by anyone but the owner (because only the Wall’s owner, not the poster, controls this).</p>
<p>The bad news is that it’s now possible to retroactively change the visibility of a post or photo. Thus, a post which can now only be seen by someone’s Friends may be visible to everyone in the future.</p>
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<p>Good point. Posts on Pages are usually visible to the Public. Posts in Groups will often be visible to the Public. This may be the case even if the Group has closed membership.</p>
<p>It should also be noted that deleting your account can actually make the problem worse. It’s generally possible to retroactively delete content you posted on other people’s profiles and on Pages…as long as you still have your account. But deleting your account doesn’t delete the information you’ve posted anywhere other than your own profile. So not only will postings elsewhere outlast your deleted account, but you won’t be able to remove them after deletion.</p>
<p>Overall, these techniques are mostly useful for managing information which is only minimally harmful to your image. It’s better to not discuss truly harmful information online at all.</p>
<p>Also, it may be worthwhile to educate your peers about these issues. For example, you could politely point out that because someone’s Wall postings and photos are visible to the Public, you don’t feel comfortable participating in the discussion.</p>
<p>I always hear about this and it always makes me laugh. My Facebook profile is locked down like Fort Knox or Cheyenne Mountain. All you see if you’re not my friend is my picture, name and networks.</p>
<p>Not that I have anything bad, but I like my privacy.</p>
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<p>7714/52 = 148.35 (views per post)</p>
<p>and people are still on here talking about FB privacy…</p>
<p>I would believe CC gives way too much information.</p>
<p>Can colleges see your details from CC?</p>
<p>What about Twitter? I think my son uses it more than Facebook because he thinks it is more ephemeral therefore safer. He won’t friend me on Twitter but he did friend me on Facebook. That does concern me…</p>
<p>Yes, report the page to Facebook as “not representing who they say they are”</p>
<p>People seem to think the big problem will be with a picture of somebody drinking from a red cup. I don’t think this is likely to be the big problem at all. I think the problem, if there is one, will come from the presence of racially or sexually offensive or insensitive posts, even if they are “jokes.” This is something you should scrub from your online presence.</p>
<p>I agree with Hunt. Couple of years ago, a local valedictorian admitted to on of the HYPS schools got really mad and wrote something racially offensive about either african americans or hispanics on his blog because his car was scratched or painted or something like that during prom. No one cared about why he was so angry but what he said offended some of the locals so much that they wanted the school the strip him of valedictorian status and started writing to the newspapers about getting his admissions revoked for being a racist.</p>
<p>Since anyone can create a fake facebook page on your name how can admissions officers rely on the fact that the person they are admitting in fact is the person posting on a particular FB page? Do you really think HYPS admissions officers have the time to verify such statements? Googling is more believable for me esp. if it is on a well known prestigious website. In which case it will be about an award or some writing you did and it cannot harm you. I am not saying go ahead and make racial comments and post naked pictures on FB but how can one prevent another rival applicant from doing so?</p>