Facebook... "Dirty Rushing"?

[UGAalum94]

AGDLynn,

That really does seem like a good idea since then nobody going through recruitment is going to use facebook pictures to profile the groups either.

What about women who are already facebook friends with PNMs? All it does in these cases in make facebook dirty rushing invisible to others, right? (Or are they supposed to "de-friend" them?)

[AGDLynn]

They'll have to ask the Panhellenic people, lol.

Seems that when Greek Life was doing some checking, they found out some of the privacy guards weren't protecting what they thought the guards were..

[lollik313]

All sorority women are required to make their Facebook profile's invisible from the months of April - September (Bid Day)

And they must abide by the following contact rules:

Facebook (and other internet sites):

You should have no contact with potential new members over the Internet. This includes but is not limited to, “poking” them, messaging them (Such as on AOL instant Messenger), or “friending” them. If a potential new member contacts you, you may reply to her with the following phrase:

“At this time all of the Sororities have agreed upon certain rules, one being that we are asked to not speak with you over the internet until the end of Sorority Recruitment. Thank you for understanding.”

***You must “de-friend” any potential new members on Facebook. This means that you must “de-friend” any incoming freshmen women that you may know or are currently friends with. You must also “de-friend” any upperclassmen that are considering going through Recruitment. If you are friends with upperclassmen who are positive that they will not go through Recruitment, you may stay friends with them. Also, as discussed in the Recruitment Roundtables, the only family members you may stay friends with are siblings.***

[33girl]

Those rules are only for Miami. Your school might have other similar rules - check with the Greek life office if you're concerned.

[FSUZeta]

shommy, you might visit the panhellenic website of your school-often the recruitment rules are listed, so you know exactly what is what.

a word of advice pertaining to continuing to communicate with your sorority friend via facebook: be careful. members of the other sororities on your campus might be randomly checking pnms facebook accounts and see posts between you and your sorority friend. they then might assume that you are zeroing in on your friends sorority and that you won't give the others a chance. it might effect your recruitment.

[FSUZeta]

lol......politeness counts!!

seriously, good luck with your recruitment!

[KKGgoesthere]

I don't know if someone said this yet cause I didn't want to read EVERYONE's posts haha but make sure if a PNM even MESSAGES you on FACEBOOK you don't message them back (if you are required to keep your profile private). If you message them back they are able to view your profile for like 20 days after, which defeats the privacy purpose. If a PNM does send you a facebook message, perhaps you can get their email address from their profile, and send them an email so as not to seem rude. But you also need to be careful about what you say to them in the email.

For example:

PNM: Hi, I noticed that you were listed as a Beta Beta Beta. I am going through recruitment and really want to be a BBB! Can you give me some tips on what I should wear? What makes BBB so great at this school?

Response: Hi, thanks for your interest! It's great that you are going to go through recruitment! I am going to forward your message to Panhellenic (or the Greek Counselor) and hopefully they can help you out!

or something like that.

Good luck everyone!