<p>Universities can screen you by looking at your myspace. Consequently, if you have things on the network that should not be there...or they think is not appropriate you can get rejected from the University. </p>
<p>Do you know anyone who has been a victim of this? Heard of this?</p>
<p>What are your thoughts and opinions on it?</p>
<p>Is it fair that the Universities could judge you by the pictures you post up online? Is the phrase "A picture says a thousand words" true??</p>
<p>they don't do it. and that's not a boogeyman in your closet. anyway, a university wouldn't reject someone because they look like they like to party. have you been to a university? people party. it's not something they could be so desperately afraid of that they would block someone (or even bother to try) based on a picture of them with a can of beer. </p>
<p>that being said, justamom is right. when you use myspace, you are willingly putting information out into the public, so don't be ****ed that it's public knowledge.</p>
<p>I think it's fair game, if you want to show how "cool" or "sexy" you can be on the internet lets all see it. Maybe it will instill some sense of decency into some of those myspace heathens that parade around the internet making fools of them self's. Face it, if you were a dean at a top school would you really want your incoming students acting like total morons??</p>
<p>I wish what you say Gleech is true. It would be really nice if Univerisities actually don't do it. But sadly they do. How do I know? Because I've talked to police officers who are in charge of Internet screening for their own employees. I've seen and heard of people get rejected. There was a recent news on a man who didn't get hired because of his myspace. It's true and it's happening. </p>
<p>ANd the stuff that I was talking about is not of you partying...it's more like high school seniors drinking, exposing too much of themselves, doing drugs and posting blogs about their last party and how drunk/wasted/or crazy they were. That's what gets them in trouble. </p>
<p>Justamom is right. They shouldn't post those in the first place. But teens, people dont think it's a serious thing until they become the victim of this myspace screening.</p>
<p>And Gleech, to answer your question. I am in college and currently a journalist.</p>
<p>Hmm I can try to impress by adding a professional layout, deleting the bad comments, deleting my inappropriate pics, and adding pics of myself in suits and proper attire lmfao...</p>
<p>If a person in higher authority were to look at your internet social network whether it be myspace, friendster or whatever else, a private setting would not prevent them from looking. If people didn't add strangers, and they just added people who they truly know, then yeah...setting it on private might actually work. But again, people add whoever, why? Because a social network like that means you need to have more friends to be cool.</p>
<p>The key thing to remember is to not put anything ridiculous or illegal on your profile, because if your main profile picture is you with a Silo cup in your hand and a keg in the background I would think if they saw that they wouldn't exactly be happy so just use common sense and with that said you don't really need to worry about it. Also, think about it, if you have a generally common name, don't list your name, are listed under an e-mail address different to that provided to the school, etc. it's going to be a bit challenging for them to find you, especially since they don't know what you look like [exception: Georgetown and others which suggest an attached picture] but even then pinpointing the exact person without picture confirmation would be ridiculous for admissions committees to base their decision on, but yeah just be sensible and logical and everything should work out.</p>
<p>How do they find you? I don't have my full name listed on myspace. If it was facebook, I would understand, since people actually use their names there. It's also easier to search for people on facebook. I don't have anything illegal, but I wonder why college admissions officers would bother screening every applicant? I would think that they have better things to do than base their decisions on an internet profile.</p>
<p>I learned that my older S was heavily into the partying life when I accidentally found his blog. I was NOT looking for his blog. It was even under an assumed name. But, heck, when I found it, I knew it was his: His pictures were all over it.</p>
<p>I know someone who doesn't realize that she lost her job because of something that she put on her Myspace blog. No, she didn't have her name there, but she did have pictures and details about her life, including the fact that she hated her job. Any idiot could tell that it was her blog. Her employers didn't tell her the reason that they let her go. </p>
<p>I'm an Ivy alum interviewer who once was assigned to interview a student whom I'd initially "met" on CC. I don't think that the student realized who I was, but I knew who the student was. I could identify the student because the student had mentioned here where the student lived, and other details of the student's life. My city is small, the details were telling, and it was very clear who the student was. In this case, the postings didn't hurt the student. What did hurt the student was that the student lied about some things that I could identify as lies because of some other unusual coincidences.</p>
<p>When it comes to the Internet, assume that future employers, the admissions committee at your dream school, your parents, your worst enemies -- all could see anything that you post on blogs, boards or that you send through e-mail. Nothing really is secret. When I worked for a corporation, once I was downloading my personal corporate e-mail and through some weird glitch, I got another executive's personal e-mails. You never know what can happen. Post and write accordingly.</p>