Facebook... "Dirty Rushing"?

[LOVEinZTA]

Originally Posted by AGDLynn

She was at their national convention. There was a Facebook slideshow of different sorority members across the country doing "questionable" things, like drinking, skanky outfits. Wonder what those members thought when they saw their face/chapter members' faces flashed on a gigantic screen.

We did this just within our chapter at meeting (faces were blacked out but you could still pretty much tell who was who) and warned that if these things didn't get cleaned up faces would be shown. It was pretty effective.

On a different note, I specifically remember girls from several different chapter friending me in the middle of rush and striking up conversations. And that was just in spring of 06!

[ErinIsBadNews]

This is a minor hijack, but what is the appropriate thing to do when you see inappropriate pictures of another group. Is it worse to be a tattle tail and notify their chapter advisor or pretend you never saw it and not tell anyone? I’m not talking about just the underage drinking pictures, but the ones that make you wonder what in the world they were thinking.

[LOVEinZTA]

Originally Posted by ErinIsBadNews

This is a minor hijack, but what is the appropriate thing to do when you see inappropriate pictures of another group. Is it worse to be a tattle tail and notify their chapter advisor or pretend you never saw it and not tell anyone? I’m not talking about just the underage drinking pictures, but the ones that make you wonder what in the world they were thinking.

Personally? I'd send an anonymous message somehow to the chapter president or historian explaining that you don't think that's a very good representation of Greek Life and they might want to consider talking to the member and taking action before *someone* reports it to their adviser. That way you give them the benefit of the doubt that they weren't aware of it and they are now so they can do something and if they don't do anything you shouldn't feel nearly as bad reporting it.

[FSUZeta]

i agree that the panhellenic thing to do would be to let the chapter president know that a member has inappropriate photos on facebook, but i might just leave it at that-if they care, they will know how to handle the situation themselves. they may already be trying to get the member to take those photos down-that's internal chapter business that an outsider would not know about-there's no need for us to tell them how to handle the situation.

[ErinIsBadNews]

That's a very good idea. Thanks.

[AOE2AlphaPhi]

All the girls in sororities have to unfriend the Rho Gammas for the semester they're disafilliated at our school. I still figured out my Rho Gammas' affiliations by looking at pictures my friends who were in their sororitites had though.

[vickitoria]

Originally Posted by AOE2AlphaPhi

All the girls in sororities have to unfriend the Rho Gammas for the semester they're disafilliated at our school. I still figured out my Rho Gammas' affiliations by looking at pictures my friends who were in their sororitites had though.

Same here, except this year our Rho Gams have taken off their entire wall, their "view more pictures" and most of their photo albums.
Also, our Panhellenic is policing facebook to make sure there arent any violations. There is supposed to be NO contact whatsoever... and this year that includes being friends with any PNM.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by vickitoria

Same here, except this year our Rho Gams have taken off their entire wall, their "view more pictures" and most of their photo albums.
Also, our Panhellenic is policing facebook to make sure there arent any violations. There is supposed to be NO contact whatsoever... and this year that includes being friends with any PNM.

We thought that would be too much trouble...and the friends would give it away. That's why we have dummy profiles set up for them. Part of the logic behind making sorority members "unsearchable" is that a PNM can't find them and message them then unless they are friends (which isn't allowed). Honestly though when it comes down to it you have to just trust the girls on both sides...if they want to get around it, they will, and if there were no facebook they would have found a different way to dirty rush.