Wall Street Journal September 18, 2008 College Applicants, Beware: Your Facebook Page is Showing
By John Hechinger
The article that I chose to write about was about Facebook and how colleges are able to access it. When applying for colleges is Facebook something you want the admissions offices to be looking at? Personally, I wouldn’t want them looking at mine and learning a lot about my personal life, but who would? I can see the side that the colleges are coming form though. I think for them Facebook is a way that you can really see what the person is like and actually does in their free time. There are many things on people’s profiles that you can learn about the person and for colleges that can learn more about you from you Facebook whether you like it or not. If you have one bad picture on Facebook though you might not be accepted and for me, I don’t think that it’s very fair. Just because you make one mistake in high school and colleges find out about it through your Facebook you aren’t able to get into that college. I guess Facebook might also help you as well, if it shows what you do in your free time, like extra curricular activities or things that don’t include drinking, drugs, and other illegal activities. Personally, I think I want to delete my Facebook when I start applying for colleges because I don’t want them being that close to my personal life and I don’t want to have anything in there that I might have forgotten about that the colleges could use against me.
-Hailey
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122170459104151023-lMyQjAxMDI4MjExODcxMDg0Wj.html
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