Facebook... "Dirty Rushing"?

[Miss{BooperDoo}]

Originally Posted by AXiD670

If Susie Sorority is friends w/ Rachel Rushee on facebook, she could post comments on her page like, "So glad you were at skit night tonight, you'd be a great fit! See you tomorrow!!!" that could be considered dirty rushing.

Actively seeking out potential new members during recruitment and adding them as friends on facebook might also be considered dirty rushing.

I'm not sure, but if some schools wanted to be super-strict about facebook, if chapter members who were previously friends w/ the potential new members were posting comments on their page during recruitment, that might be considered a violation, even something as benign as "Hi!" or whatever.

Lately, I've been thinking about how glad I am I didn't go to college during the whole facebook thing. It was bad enough being broken up with by your boyfriend, but when you log in to facebook and the first thing you see is that your boyfriend has listed himself as "single" or that his friends start posting things like, "glad you got rid of the dead weight!", or cute girls suddenly posting on his page, I might have freaked out and gone over the edge.

Sorry, was reading down through this thread and read your post and it cracked me up about the boyfriend bit.

[sundance]

During fall rush here (UCLA), all of the girls deactivated their Facebooks (basically, it's deleted, but you can always bring it back). I don't know whether this was required, or whether it was just easier than deleting pictures, changing privacy settings, and "cleaning up" their profiles.

It was really effective, because it was as if girls in sororities didn't even exist! I'm sure it was hard for them to live without Facebook for that time, but they all survived.

[Symbal]

Rho Chi's had to make their Facebook profiles Private, though I'm not sure about Myspace. It's not big here.
Sorority sisters, as far as I know, did not have to do anything to their profiles. I remember friending a sister during rush (she didn't confirm until after COB) since we had gotten along well. I did not message her, nor did she message me until the whole thing was over.
Rushees were not given special instructions other than don't contact the sisters outside of rush activities.
I know a lot of girls who used Facebook as a way to get a feel of the sorority she had in mind. She looked at the functions they did together, what the sisters were like, etc.

[AGDLynn]

Interesting conversation with a collegiate Panhellenic officer yesterday.

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.

So, everyone (sorority members or potentials), clean up your Facebook or set to Private or someone may see it and get an unfavorable impression of you.

[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.