Facebook During Rush

[xonikki]

I did a search using facebook as the search word and I couldn't find a thread with this exact discussion...
I don't post here too often, but a topic came up during our first rho gamma/ assistant membership meeting yesterday. Because assistant membership chairs and rho gammas (rho chis, etc...) have to disaffiliate during rush, the head rho gamma brought up the question of what we'll do about us being on facebook. But then the question about the groups you start on facebook and howthe pnm's finding regular chapter members came up and that just brought up a discussion of a whole new way to dirty rush. For those campuses who have already been on the facebook during rush, what have your rho gammas and chapter members done? And those who have not had the facebook and rush experience, what, if anything, do you plan on doing?

Many HQs have already addressed this.

I don't see what the friggin' big deal is. Just deactivate the account.

What's more important? Conducting an honest recruitment or your FaceBook account? It's easier to just get rid of the account altogether rather than try to hide your affiliation. Even if you do the latter, it won't take a genius to figure it out when you have 920342304923502502352 friends who are XYZs.

FaceBook's dumb, anyway.

[ta kala]

One of my sisters is currently Vice President of Panhel and she is in charge of recruitment for the sororities. This past spring she dealt with this issue by changing her name and also removing her picture. That way the PNM's couldn't even do a search for her, but yet she still maintained her membership. Once recruitment was over, she simply changed everything back. She also sent a message out to all her friends letting them know she did this because a lot of sisters were wondering who the random girl was who was in our facebook group. It seemd to work well for her!

[33girl]

Sandy has a point in that if you're in a group with all XYZs people are going to guess you are an XYZ. Is there any way to hide your facebook account until recruitment is over, rather than deactivate it completely?

If not, it might be worth asking the creators to add such a feature - they are obviously fairly smart guys, I'm sure they could figure it out.

I just don't get it.

Deactivating the account and then re-building it later slowly but surely vs. going back and changing everything just to conceal your identity. If anything, it'd be easier to do the first one. I've cancelled my account before and reinstated it, it wasn't really brain surgery.

I just think it's pretty pathetic when a FaceBook account takes precedence over Panhellenic and sorority matters.

[opaldragon]

At my campus, the facebook and myspace deal is something that's being dealt with currently. First off, people are being urged to make sure that any pictures posted on either site, particularly myspace, are appropriate. Meaning, we don't want to see your ass cleavage while you're drinking yourself into oblivion in any pictures posted. On the issue of Sigma Rho Chis/ Rho Gammas/ and whatever other term y'all use, they are told to remove anything that would either reveal or infer their affiliation. If that means deactivating your account, so be it.

[tunatartare]

My school only got on the facebook in October, so we didn't even have it during fall rush. I know that in the spring though none of the Rho Chis deactivated their accounts or did anything with it. I don't know if anything's going to be done with it for the upcoming fall recruitment. It just kinda seems to be a non-issue with our greek council.

[texas*princess]

Originally posted by OTW
I just don't get it.

Deactivating the account and then re-building it later slowly but surely vs. going back and changing everything just to conceal your identity. If anything, it'd be easier to do the first one. I've cancelled my account before and reinstated it, it wasn't really brain surgery.

I just think it's pretty pathetic when a FaceBook account takes precedence over Panhellenic and sorority matters.

I totally agree!

[AUDeltaGam]

The Pi Chis at Auburn have removed any clue to their affiliation (groups, clubs, etc...) and removed their last names. I know it doesn't make it impossible to figure out who belongs to what sorority, but atleast it's a start.

[texas*princess]

Originally posted by AUDeltaGam
The Pi Chis at Auburn have removed any clue to their affiliation (groups, clubs, etc...) and removed their last names. I know it doesn't make it impossible to figure out who belongs to what sorority, but atleast it's a start.

I guess a "start" is better than nothing. Like OTW mentioned though, it doesn't take a rocket-scientist to see that Mary Sue has 856232689 XYZ friends.

[LurksaLot]

Just so you all know, there is an option on facebook where your profile (including friends list) cannot be accessible to anyone except your current friends. This way, even if a PNM was to do a search for a Pi Chi, all she would get was the intial page that listed name, major, and year. Have them do this and remove their affiliation and club membership and your golden.

[AUDeltaGam]

Originally posted by texas*princess
I guess a "start" is better than nothing. Like OTW mentioned though, it doesn't take a rocket-scientist to see that Mary Sue has 856232689 XYZ friends.

Oh, I totally agree... I was playing on facebook last night and I came across the profile of one of the members of Panhellenic Exec board (they have to disaffiliate) and I had no trouble figuring out her affiliation. I think the facebook could become an issue during recruitment, thought I hope it doesn't.

[jillybean]

Originally posted by lilsunshine214
The Panhellenic Council at my school thought it would take a lot to build up the friends you have, remember who are your friends, tell them all that you're de-activating your account, and then tell them to put you back on it. Also, there's getting permission to be in some of the groups and telling them that you're de-activating your account.

I know that it doesn't seem like much, but be-friending 100 people as opposed to a few clicks of taking off your picture and hiding your groups/friends seems a bit easier from that perspective.

I'm going to have to agree with the people who think problems like the above - having to "remake your friends/groups on Facebook" is super lame and a little off priority

[33girl]

This is all quite interesting to the elderly of GC. Is facebook really that big of a deal? I mean, what do you do on it other than see if other people are on it?

Plus, I thought you had to have a school email to use it. Women going through rush this summer before school starts wouldn't have school emails yet, would they?

On the other side of the coin, if there are PNMs obsessive enough to go through every facebook and LJ & xanga etc to find out what sorority their RCs are in, knock yourselves out.

[GeorgiaGirl]

Actually, at least at UGA, as soon as you are accepted you are expected to create a UGA email account that you need to register for classes, sign up for parking, ect... There are already groups on UGAs facebooks for the class of '09 that have over 100 people in them.