You're responding to a different question than she's asking. She already has a private facebook and wonders if the questionable advice on a questionable blog to "clean it and make it public or no one will bid yooooouuuuu!" is correct.

I seriously doubt if an employer would ever not hire you if you didn't have a public facebook, or if you had no facebook at all. This is what the dipshit blogger is implying.

FB posts on non private pages (tv shows...politicians....bands)
 

OK...some advice...I just found this out, as I'll be applying to grad/school for education. So I want my iterate profile to be very nice.

Even if you have a private FB...anything you post on a PUBLIC FB page is available to anyone who Googles your name. I put in "Monica Winter" (not my real name obv) and in the search I found stuff like this: "Monica Winter" commented on Teen Mom's Status...and whatever I wrote ("I love Maci" or "April is evil"...whatever!) was there, word for word. So...if you are one of the peoe who go on there (we will go with this one for an example) badmouthing so-and-so as a B and horrible person...first of all...STOP- everyone on Earth can see this, and two- it paints a negative opinion of you. So... Go through your FB and trash these comments. Honestly that is where they belong anyway!!!

(Fortunately mine are mostly about animal rights or education reform so I'm good!) but I honestly did not know this until I googled my own name.

I've found that in my school, "facebook creeping" is almost a second hobby. I NEVER did that until I got to college. I thought it was so strange when someone invited me to their dorm to look at boys (and other girls, usually roommates) on facebook. I mean, REALLY look at them. Some girls went through every single public album and looked at all the notes and videos and updates from way back in the day. They would even creep on the girl/boy's significant other! It's so insane!

We all creep on the XYZ University Class of 20- - page. DO NOT PUT YOUR RUSH PREFERENCES HERE! That is embarrassing and rude. Everyone can read it...

I'd clean it up well before rush. I'd do it before you ask for rec letters. I just got asked to write a rec letter for a local young woman that is going to go through rush at a very competitive school. First thing I did was google her. Found her Facebook, and the wall portion was private but her pictures were public. All were in good taste and appropriate. Props to her!

I'm dating myself here, but when I was in college, it was a few years before facebook first came out (I remember joining, it was www.thefacebook.com, and only college kids could join). Anyhow, my college already had an online database of every student's name, year, and student ID picture for us all to browse. The college also allowed it to have capabilities to search for, say, the Top 10 viewed out of all the girls or the guys. Which obviously became a big ass popularity contest. But I definitely remember creeping on that... so I can only imagine how it is now.

If you want dated, the world wide web was 2 years old when I started college.

Young'un. :p

yes, yes, yes!!! my daughter(and i am sure every other sorority woman at her school) and i would go look at the poor ignorant freshwomen, who had joined the ABC University class of 20xx, saying which sorority they "were going to rush" or the one that they "would probably join"-oh, foolish freshwomen! and guess what? rarely did the girl actually join the one she thought was her top choice before rush started.

So I'm a little late on this post, but I still have a few things to say.

Do we check facebooks? Oh, absolutely. Will it hurt you if yours is private? No, but like many people have said--if it's online, it's never completely private. And--make sure your default pic (the one that everyone CAN see) is classy and shows you--not a picture of your dog.

Now, keeping it private won't hurt you--but, if we creep on a girls facebook and we like what we see & read, that gives us a good idea about her, and before she walks through the door, she could already be one of our top choices. That could obviously change and favorite girls fluctuate throughout the week, but it's a good way to be remembered.

I think it would be best to try to act in good character at all times social network wise.

Do most sororities check out Facebook pages before or during rush? If before, do they continue to check up on it or is it a one time thing?

Hopefully I'm not stepping on any toes - I'm trying to decide whether to open up some aspects of my profile now, wait till later, or not at all.

thanks!

They will check it before, during, and probably after Recruitment! You will be the subject of serious stalking, if you're lucky!

Talk about dated. When I went through RUSH, there was no internet. Computers used punch cards. Recs had to be mailed to the chapters well ahead of time since e-mail did not exist. We did not have to worry about a post we wrote 10 years earlier or a picture we took in HS showing up for the entire world to check out. Chapters had to go strictly by the impressions they got of you during the parties and your rec-- no way to creep around a Facebook, Myspace or any other page. Bid matching was done strictly by hand.

DaffyKD

Am I the only one who misses when you had to have a college email to join FB? It was the ONE thing that separated FB from MySpace. I think FB got really big my junior year of college. Now, everyone can have a page. What's worse is when people give their 5-year-old a page and think that's acceptable. I miss the good 'ole days of FB.

AnotherKD, where did you go to school that they had a page like this? That does sound pretty weird and most likely like one big popularity contest. I see, in the spirit of things, how it could have been viewed as a good thing, though.

I agree with everyone on here. Discretion is key. Also, while we are on pictures and putting yourself in a good light--OP, please do us all a favor and don't have a bunch of pictures with Duck Face. Ugh! Also, if grammar isn't your strong point, please have someone look it over on your FB profile. You could be a beauty queen and sweet as pie but, if you have something like "Love of my life-YOUR my everything" then I lose (NOT loose) all respect for what you just wrote and have a hard time taking you seriously :rolleyes:<--- just a tip.

lol @ duckface.