Local newspaper Editorial—Facing up to Facebook liabilities

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Students applying to colleges are advised to do a lot: Make good grades; get good recommendations; play a sport; edit the yearbook; invent a simple, hand-held device that would run on solar energy and would provide a simple solution to climate change.

But those students are also being advised not to do one important thing: Leave a cyber trail that admissions offices can follow directly to their Facebook pages.

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Filed under: * Culture-WatchBlogging & the InternetEducationYoung Adults

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Posted April 29, 2010 at 8:01 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. A Senior Priest wrote:

you can now set your FB privacy settings so you can’t be searched and found either on Facebook or Google.

April 29, 8:27 pm | [comment link]
2. PHWhite wrote:

My advice is to “friend” your priest, your child and your mother - that way you will be extra-careful about what content gets on your page.

April 30, 10:05 pm | [comment link]
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