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Originally posted by KLPDaisy
I think I may have posted this story a while ago in a different thread but last year we had a pnm come through recruitment who seemed nice but was kind of shy and didn't really try to talk to us. We were going to cut her before pref but she facebooked the roommate of one of the girls in the sorority and would always send her messages like "tell KLP how much I loved them," "KLP is the best sorority," "I wanna join KLP," blah, blah, blah. We heard this and we decided to invite her back to pref because she was so enthusiastic about us. At pref she didn't really make a big effort to talk to anyone. As soon as pref was over, my sister's roommate called her to tell her that this girl had messaged her gushing about us. Yet in the long run, she ended up joining another sorority. I think she was just using facebook to get around the whole no talking to girls in sororities during recruitment thing. No clue if she did this with girls in any of the other sororities.
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Isn't talking to members via facebook illegal at most schools? At Baylor, silence is silence--no talking on the phone, on IMs, on facebook, on LJ--nowhere.
As far as my take on those sites goes, I don't put info on facebook that I wouldn't want to come back and bite me in the butt, my LJ is friends-only, and my facebook photos are friends only. My myspace is pretty bare because I just joined to keep track of local bands I enjoy.
Think of it this way--a lot of employers are now starting to check out sites like facebook and myspace. Do you really want things like "I like to paaaarty!" affecting you later in life? And I don't know if this is an issue with anyone else, but I worry about relatives finding my facebook or myspace. If there's something on there that's not fit to show off to my family, I don't want it on there to be shown to everyone else. Our Panhellenic is really strict about facebook censorship (hate to say it, but what's common sense to me is censorship when enforced by rules) and we can't join groups about drinking or more illegal substances, can't have booze in our pics, etc., etc. Think of it this way--if you do get into a sorority, chances are, the "standards" officer is going to have certain rules and regs about appearances that overlap into your appearance on facebook, so don't put anything there that you might have to edit out later and save yourself some trouble by keeping it clean.
Sites like facebook can be a wonderful resource for chapters doing the rushing, though--posting positive info about yourself just makes us all the more excited about you! Put your best online foot forward and you should be fine.
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