
College Applicants, Beware: Your Facebook Page Is Showing (excerpts taken from The Wall Street Journal)
** A survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers
acknowledged looking at social-networking sites to evaluate applicants.
** 38% said that what they saw "negatively affected" their view of the applicant.
** Some admissions officers said they had rejected students because of material on the sites.
** 21% of colleges used social-networking sites for recruiting prospects and gathering information about applicants.
****REMEMBER: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING****