i have my phone number on my profile, but i also have it super restricted as to who can see it. yay for a varied myriad of privacy features.

but while we're on the topic, my boyfriend sent me this video link about facebook that's a bit disturbing:

http://albumoftheday.com/facebook/

The additional information on that site (at the bottom of the video) was a little conspiracy theorist for my taste, but again, paying attention to what you are making public particularly in one location is REALLY important.

wow that little video thing makes me glad I don't have a facebook page...

I really don't understand why it's fashionable to have pictures of 3 of your sisters holding you up for a keg stand while you're wearing a torn up shirt posted online. As such, I have no such pictures available for public viewing and would hope that none of my sisters do either. The whole "no curse words in a group name rule" is a little far to me. Actually having anyone tell you what you can and cannot have posted for a select group of your friends (profile set as private) is a bit far to me. I understand WHY individual groups feel the need to regulate this, many members do NOT have their profiles private, and that is exactly who should be in charge of setting the rules. In this federalism case, I don't think Panhel should be the ones taking charge of this. They can make suggestions sure, but I think the monitoring should be up to the chapters. I know in Zeta's latest newsletter issue there's a HUGE article on what is not appropriate to have online (http://www.zetataualpha.org/content/.../winter07.pdf). Hot button issue. And, as someone above me mentioned, what's to keep one bitter girl (or a even few) on Panhel from completely targeting out another group she isn't particularly fond of? There should be guidelines, but you can't expect a couple of collegiates to create and enforce them equally.

P.S. Everyone come join my new facebook group "I love taking rips off of beer bongs in my letters while my butt is hanging out of my skirt and posting pictures of it all later, bitch."

Is it common to have keys to your house? We just had a code that we put in the back door to the house that only initiated sisters were told. Even if you don't have your letters on a keychain, if someone who knows what organization you're in finds your keys, it wouldn't be too dificult to break in to the house. I know the same could be said of living anywhere but that's putting more than just yourself at risk--that's a whole houseful of girls (or guys).

I am an alum, but last time I checked the front door had a key- not a code. I believe that one house had a code and it became an issue because other ppl could learn it and no one ever answered their front door.

We had keys for our house. We also had the "no ASA" keychains rule.

Does the whole chapter have their cards programmed to get it, or just those who live in the house?


Our chapter, only sisters who lived in the house got a key.

Our house doors lock automatically when they're closed. Only in-house girls have a key. We also have the "no Alpha Phi memorabilia" on our keychains rule if you live in the house.

This key thing is making me feel old and sad.

We never thought of having a "no ASA keychains" rule - as a matter of fact, I think we were encouraged to have them, that way if someone found our keys they would know where to return them. The thought of someone breaking into our house never crossed our mind.

I am older- we had this rule in the mid-late 90's- but my campus was also in a semi-urban area and not the safest place.

also getting back to the whole myspace/facebook topic- there is a whole article on this in the latest issue of the Lyre. It boils down to the this- that members shouldn't put anything on their profile that they don't want to be public information and also makes the statement don't put anything in your profile that you wouldn't want your mother/grandmother to see.
Both very good points.

That's what we have, hence I have no way of getting in the house. It was even worse for New Member meetings which I was inevitably late for, because I'd have to call the house phone to be let in when there was no one downstairs, which there typically wasn't. The code was changed every semester.

Done and done. I created a sister group called 'keg stands in skirts, and I'm a sorostitute bitches!' because I just felt that facebook needed a touch of class.

EDIT: sorry for the double post.

Yep. Our advisor was just talking last night about the fact that your facebook profile isn't private no matter what you do. If someone wants to see it, they can. So there's only negative to come from posting incriminating things.

If your facebook profile (or myspace for that matter) is private it shouldn't matter, unless you're friending potential members. I see members on my campus friending PNMs all the time and it really bothers me that this hasn't been considered a rush infraction yet.

Now if you're profile is public and you're posting these types of pictures and joining those types of groups, then you better hope that your future employer doesn't know what Google is. They will hold it against you. Plus I wouldn't want any of my sisters having stuff like that in public. I'm all for free speech, but don't attach our organizations name to negative stuff.