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Be warned, youths with fancy-free Facebook profiles: Admissions officers at colleges you've applied to may be checking them. According to the Washington Square News, a Kaplan report says "One in 10 admissions officers viewed applicants’ social networking profiles to help in the decision-making process." And 38% of those profiles led to a "negative effect on their evaluation of the student, while only 25 percent reported a positive influence." However, NYU's admissions office says, "Our practice is that we do not check Facebook profiles. I do not see the value in looking up information on a social networking website. How would one judge the veracity of the statements found there? ...If we wanted to know more about a student’s social life, we would ask."
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That's why there's an option to make your profile, pictures, and video private and visible to friends only.
No worries, kids! Soon, there won't be anyone applying to college seeing that the funding is in the toilet.
"Soon, there won't be anyone applying to college seeing that the funding is in the toilet.."
Learn a trade, we already have too many people walking around with useless degrees expecting a high-flying job. If you love English literature, just get yourself a library card, no point spending 30 grand a year to listen to some old fart in a tweed jacket blabber on about Chaucer. A plumber or electrician's salary buys plenty of books too.
Yep, kids, learn a trade such as: Television Repair, Electric Fan Motor Repair, Electric Shaver Service, Vacuum Cleaner Maintenance, Watch Repair, and for the technology savvy, Transistor Radio Repair.
You think this is crazy, wait until the days when kids who grew up in the age of camera phones at every social event are running for public office. There'll be embarrassing pictures about everyone.
I don't understand how they can check their profiles if they aren't "friends" with them on facebook...?