Do sororities really look at your Facebook page during rush?

[TexasDarling]

Please don't block all your pictures. Many sororities make posters/powerpoints/flashcards of girls they really want. We want a picture that is gorgeous and uniquely you so we can pick you out of a crowd. If we only have one choice, it could hurt you.

I don't think there is a need to deactivate. Just be tasteful. Besides, there are social media rules when you get into a sorority, so why not start cleaning up your act now?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by TexasDarling

Please don't block all your pictures. Many sororities make posters/powerpoints/flashcards of girls they really want. We want a picture that is gorgeous and uniquely you so we can pick you out of a crowd. If we only have one choice, it could hurt you.

I don't think there is a need to deactivate. Just be tasteful. Besides, there are social media rules when you get into a sorority, so why not start cleaning up your act now?

But wouldn't the chapters have gotten a picture of her with her rec anyway? Those are more likely better photographed/lit than her pictures on FB.

No one, no matter what the situation, should feel compelled to have a Facebook page - private, public, or at all. That's what the OP's question was, not how to clean up her page.

[AXOrushadvisor]

Originally Posted by 33girl

But wouldn't the chapters have gotten a picture of her with her rec anyway? Those are more likely better photographed/lit than her pictures on FB.

No one, no matter what the situation, should feel compelled to have a Facebook page - private, public, or at all. That's what the OP's question was, not how to clean up her page.

I just reread your post. We don't get pictures with the applications like we used to and we get very few recommendations at our school. We use facebook to figure out sometimes who it is the girls have talked to especially if there are 5 Megan Smiths going through!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by AXOrushadvisor

I just reread your post. We don't get pictures with the applications like we used to and we get very few recommendations at our school. We use facebook to figure out sometimes who it is the girls have talked to especially if there are 5 Megan Smiths going through!

Ha, I probably should have said application, but as far as using it as a rationale for the poster-making as TD was, you are probably screwed without recs anyway at that kind of rush, so it's a moot point.

[TexasDarling]

Originally Posted by 33girl

But wouldn't the chapters have gotten a picture of her with her rec anyway? Those are more likely better photographed/lit than her pictures on FB.

Sometimes, sometimes not. For example, while your prom picture is gorgeous, it there can be a huge gap between that and your look when you walk through our door.

[Always AlphaGam]

Originally Posted by TexasDarling

Sometimes, sometimes not. For example, while your prom picture is gorgeous, it there can be a huge gap between that and your look when you walk through our door.

The same could be said about default photos on FB. I know several people on FB who don't bother changing their defaults simply because they prefer using ones where they look the most flattering...even if it means using the photo taken in 2008 at your high school banquet.

[HQWest]

Saw a story on CNN this morning while I was working out with warning about employers using facebook as an additional part of background checks....

[33girl]

Originally Posted by HQWest

Saw a story on CNN this morning while I was working out with warning about employers using facebook as an additional part of background checks....

How?

This is my question with all of this. How can you assume something from a site on a computer, with no concrete evidence? Just because I choose to join a group called "How To Rob A Bank" it doesn't mean I have the slightest intention of robbing a bank, or that the police wouldn't be wasting their time in the extreme asking me about the latest bank robbery.

It's all starting to be a rewind of when in the 1950s if you were a member of any union, left-wing group or anything with "peoples" in it, you must be a Communist.