Greek Life Social Media

[panhelrose]

Hey y'all! I know it's super popular for sororities to have accounts on different social media (especially instagram) to generate interest before recruitment and give PNMs a look at what each chapter is like. A few of my sisters and I were discussing our chapter's instagram and how different chapters on our campus utilize social media to show off their personalities.

We've recently had a new chapter establish a chapter, and my sisters and I disagreed about how we felt they utilized their social media. Obviously it's no one else's business how a chapter chooses to use social media if it's not breaking any Panhellenic rules, but since a few of us were "representatives" for our chapter to help their national leadership consultants with our campus culture, we were curious if they were doing what the majority of us were doing, or doing something else.

A really popular theme for sorority social media is those "why I went XYZ" posts, and since they're a brand new chapter, we've all been interested in why their members decided to join them rather than participate in formal recruitment, and this is where the disagreement comes in. A few of their posts have girls mentioning that they went through recruitment or COB but were dropped, sometimes even after a few attempts. A few of my sisters and I thought this was refreshingly candid, because even though being completely dropped from recruitment is rare at our school, it could be nice for PNMs to know that it can happen and that your life isn't totally over if it does. However, other sisters thought this was embarrassing and painted that chapter as "rejects" and "leftovers". Some posts also mentioned joining for the consultants, being "not like other chapters", and joining to be a part of that chapter specifically, rather than part of the greek community as a whole, which I definitely thought was questionable, since my campus has a very inclusive greek life.

What do you think about this? I know it's not going to change whatever that chapter does with their social media, but I'm curious if anyone else thought this was either strange or totally fine.