I'm so scared and excited to death

[LOVEinZTA]

ok I couldn't resist this.

As facebook has recently said they are going to open up essentially to "anyone who wants a profile" (no, I'm not going to comment on that) I think it would be ABSOLUTELY REDICULOUS to think anything but "she's smart" of someone who privatized their account. what is she hiding? Come on, I understand that you want to get to know the PNMs and see what they're like, so talk to them. Don't read what her drunk friend posted in a message to them and try to infer something about her. As I'm sure we've all learned, the web lets you become whomever you choose. I have quite a few friends whose online profiles make them look like saints when I and anyone else who has met them face to face certainly knows they aren't. I think it would be just as bad to get pumped up about a girl because she has the "quintessential online profile," rush her hard, give her a bid, and then have her turn out to be a loud public drunk who just doesn't own a camera to post the pictures. (this is just an example)

Keep it private, by all means. Treasure the fact that you have "the right to be left alone." My facebook, from the day I opened it, has been set so that only my friends and 'friends of my friends at my school' can see it. I have the name of my apartment complex up because my friends always forget and I don't want that information free for the taking. Ok sorry, i HAD to get that out.

HOW'S RECRUITMENT?!?!?!??