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Old 05-20-2011, 11:16 AM
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For clarification: When you say 'risk management issue,' do you mean in general or specifically in the digital space? That may be why I'm not getting the full message you're trying to convey.
In all honesty, almost every time a chapter is caught doing something against risk management policies these days, it is because someone posted it on Facebook or another social media site. The other times, it is usually because someone had to go to the hospital. 9 times out of 10, if someone hadn't posted it online, nobody would have known/gotten in trouble. That's the perspective I'm coming from.

Ironically enough, the only reason I ever came to greekchat was because a chapter was asking what to do about someone who posted things here that were inappropriate and they wanted me to read the posts. I got hooked on this darn board in the process...lol. That was the first time I was involved in an Internet posting issue, but it was just the beginning of a long line of social media issues.

It reminds me of young people who cuss like sailors no matter where they are. They don't have enough sense to know that how they talk around friends is not how they should be talking in other situations. It was usually the boys I worked with in adolescent psych who would do that back in the day and my standard feedback to them was "Locker Room Talk, not Occupational Therapy talk!" I understand that teenagers swear. I understand that a lot of teenagers party.

Having the sense to be discrete is an important life skill, not for recruitment, but for life.
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Old 05-20-2011, 11:20 AM
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In all honesty, almost every time a chapter is caught doing something against risk management policies these days, it is because someone posted it on Facebook or another social media site. The other times, it is usually because someone had to go to the hospital. 9 times out of 10, if someone hadn't posted it online, nobody would have known/gotten in trouble. That's the perspective I'm coming from.
OK, that makes more sense.

I was reading it as "We can determine whether or not you will haze our new members / act a drunken mess / fail out of classes / whatever based on your SM profiles." Plus, I was tired when all of this was posted lol
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Old 05-20-2011, 11:26 AM
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People oversharing and not knowing to STFU has been going on a long time before Facebook.

As I've said before, when you live in a state and/or go to a school with more stringent alcohol regulations than most, you just naturally learn to keep things close to the vest, but I think nowadays they don't even get that any more. I'm sure a lot of this is because punishment from parents is not what it used to be. A sorority's national office disciplining a chapter is probably the first time some people have ever heard "hey, you screwed up."

Personally, I blame The Real World and the concept of the worse you behave, the more media attention you get.
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Old 05-20-2011, 11:22 AM
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Old 05-20-2011, 11:58 AM
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Having the sense to be discrete is an important life skill, not for recruitment, but for life.
Kudos to AGDee!

This is a great and important comment, but because I am a spelling freak and former copy editor, it's discreet.
Discrete = "apart or detached from others; separate; distinct: six discrete parts."
Discreet = "1. judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect. 2. showing prudence and circumspection; decorous: a discreet silence."
(Thank you dictionary.com)
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