Do sororities really look at your Facebook page during rush?

[ellebud]

Yes. And so do future employers...look at your facebook.

[AnchorAlumna]

I want to see a picture of you. By yourself, not with your honey or a bunch of buddies.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ellebud

Yes. And so do future employers...look at your facebook.

You're responding to a different question than she's asking. She already has a private facebook and wonders if the questionable advice on a questionable blog to "clean it and make it public or no one will bid yooooouuuuu!" is correct.

I seriously doubt if an employer would ever not hire you if you didn't have a public facebook, or if you had no facebook at all. This is what the dipshit blogger is implying.

[*winter*]

OK...some advice...I just found this out, as I'll be applying to grad/school for education. So I want my iterate profile to be very nice.

Even if you have a private FB...anything you post on a PUBLIC FB page is available to anyone who Googles your name. I put in "Monica Winter" (not my real name obv) and in the search I found stuff like this: "Monica Winter" commented on Teen Mom's Status...and whatever I wrote ("I love Maci" or "April is evil"...whatever!) was there, word for word. So...if you are one of the peoe who go on there (we will go with this one for an example) badmouthing so-and-so as a B and horrible person...first of all...STOP- everyone on Earth can see this, and two- it paints a negative opinion of you. So... Go through your FB and trash these comments. Honestly that is where they belong anyway!!!

(Fortunately mine are mostly about animal rights or education reform so I'm good!) but I honestly did not know this until I googled my own name.

[phitheta376]

I'm the recruitment chairman of a fraternity at a school where Greek life is not at all competitive, and even we research people's Facebook pages before giving them a bid. My advice would be to make everything 100% private, delete anything incriminating or that you wouldn't want your grandparents to see, and maybe don't even log in during the rush period. You can even stop the page from showing up in searches. No one is going to go so far as to not considering you because you gave too little information on a web site, but any little tidbit of information is a potential liability. Choose carefully.

The wonderful thing about Facebook for chapters is that most new prospects are not nearly as conscientious as you are. From now until the end of time, people will be posting stupid things on Facebook, and they'll be self-selecting themselves out of Greek life. Half of the work is already done for chapters now.

[spaceykatie]

When I rushed last year I purposely set my fb profile to super private. I was searchable, but all they could see was my profile picture. I made sure to have up a pretty profile pic, but I didn't want to be nervous about sorting through all my tagged photos. I don't think it held me back at all