<p>My D got a letter from her top choice school thanking her for sending her test scores. They told her she can become a Facebook fan of the college by searching <em>topchoice college admissions</em> on FB. She did it and became a fan. Now I'm wondering if the college admissions people will be able to see her entire FB profile, or just her profile picture.</p>
<p>Our guidance staff told parents that admissions counselors have told them that they absolutely DO look at Facebook, and to remind the kids to clean their profiles up if need be. D's profile is fine, but she and I discussed the need to be sure her profile pic isn't misleading or open to a negative interpretation. But I'm just wondering her being a fan of the college means they can see her entire profile or not.</p>
<p>Her privacy settings pretty much allow only friends to see anything, except her default/profile photo is also visible to "friends of friends."</p>
<p>I’m not sure about being a ‘fan’ but the default setting any time you join a ‘network’ or group (like your city, your place of employment, etc) is that everyone in that network can see your FB page whether they are your friend or not. To be on the safe side, I would assume they can see it. Also, check to make sure that every single setting is ‘friends’ only and not ‘friends of friends’. I have a friend who is an attorney and they use FB all the time to get evidence. She said it’s remarkably easy to get on someone’s FB page. Unfortunately, privacy on the internet is an illusion.</p>
<p>She has her privacy settings so that only friends can see anything. Under search settings, friends of friends can find her and see her default/profile pic, but that’s it. I’ve searched her and all it shows is her name, profile, and default pic. (She and I are not FB friends).</p>
<p>I just don’t know if becoming a “fan” of something is like being a friend. In that case, the college definitely could see the whole profile.</p>
<p>We have a Facebook page for my workplace and you can become a fan of our page. I am one of the administrators and we cannot see the profiles of our fans unless their settings are open to the whole institution. </p>
<p>That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be cautious of what you put on your Facebook page.</p>
<p>Contrary to the earlier post, I don’t think it’s easy to get onto someone’s FB page. If it is, I’d love to know how to do it and/or avoid someone doing it! Provide specifics please.</p>
<p>As I see it, you can get enough privacy by simply setting your settings set to just friends. Removing tags of photos with you in them. And take the most restrictive policy on all the other dozen privacy settings. Finally, don’t accept friendships with people you don’t know personally. </p>
<p>If you are really worried, make a duplicate account. One for your real life (following the same stuff above to protect your privacy), and one for colleges to see how great you are :).</p>
<p>Northernwoods, thank you - that’s exactly what I wanted to know. D’s settings only allow Friends to see anything (except her default pic, which is limited to friends of friends).</p>
<p>I was curious if being a “fan” was the same as being a “friend” but apparently it is not.</p>
<p>S was working for a well known organization that has a FB page. One “fan” is a real nutcase. I never heard whether or not the administrators could see the profile, but I know they do know what his IP address is. Not sure what steps they had to take to be able to see that, though.</p>