Break Apart Facebook Before Your College Application Goes In

High School Beware Sign

Shouldn’t High School students start disabling their accounts or perhaps maximizing privacy settings ASAP? It is the season for poking and snooping during the height of the college application period.

Even though the Early Action deadline passed almost two weeks ago, the majority of High School seniors are rallying their recommendations and brag sheets to complete the January 1^st deadline. That leads me to a logical question and correspondingly, solution: “Will college admission officers or college students working within the admission’s office browse and fact-check applicant profiles on Facebook?” They may just be able to find a fairy. The solution is quite simple actually: look up and down your social graph, scour far and wide to make sure no searchable/linkable ties exist. The goal here is to break the network out of centrality and betweeness in order to force you into a silo. This also applies for new job applicants.

Just like Nick previously mentioned in his review of the College Planner application , the age demographic within Facebook is swelling with pubescent MySpacers to compete against corporate Facebookers. With that in mind, if you’re applying to colleges in the next month and a half: beware.

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7283 Comments2007-11-14+14%3A00%3A49Nick+O%27Neill »

[...] CNet’s source, has a follow up post about making sure your profile is ready to be snooped at by colleges.Â Folks in the workforce have known (or should have known) to do this for years, as more and more [...]

Pingback by J’s Notes » Blog Archive » Apply To College Through Facebook — November 14, 2007 @ 9:23 am
so when applying for college, do they look for things u have done on facebook?…..do they get in depth with ur inbox/chat/comment messages?

Comment by abenaa — September 18, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
does anyone here ever put in real email addresses?

lol

anyway, just configure your privacy settings..

Comment by 12013 — February 23, 2009 @ 5:53 pm

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[...] CNet’s source, has a follow up post about making sure your profile is ready to be snooped at by colleges.Â Folks in the workforce have known (or should have known) to do this for years, as more and more [...]

Pingback by J’s Notes » Blog Archive » Apply To College Through Facebook — November 14, 2007 @ 9:23 am

so when applying for college, do they look for things u have done on facebook?…..do they get in depth with ur inbox/chat/comment messages?