Facebook... "Dirty Rushing"?

[AGDLynn]

They'll have to ask the Panhellenic people, lol.

Seems that when Greek Life was doing some checking, they found out some of the privacy guards weren't protecting what they thought the guards were..

[acuisla]

One of the campuses I work with deals with facebook in this fashion (quoting 2006 recruitment rules)

XV. The Facebook
1. Rho Chis will remove all mentions of affiliation from their Faceboook profiles, and adjust privacy settings to limit access to their friends by date.
2. Chapter Women will adjust privacy settings to limit access to their friends by date2. Chapter women are strongly encouraged to potray themselves on the facebook in accordance with Panhellenic guidelines. More restrictions may be implemented by individual chapters.

I believe that the chapters on the above campus are mostly self-policing about Facebook contacts. The CPC does spot checks of chapter women's profiles, and the individual organizations do check up on each other. They have seen a problem with the fraternities accidentally giving away CPC/Rho Chi afilliations, but it usually gets straightened out before recruitment. I also believe that there's some contact through Facebook during recruitment, but it doesn't seem to constitute dirty rushing - people are just too darned busy to do any of that. And the PNMs seem to be coached too well about giving everyone a chance and the realities of bid matching for them to fall for the dirty rushing. But I could also be naive here.

What really interests me is how much sorority members use Facebook to research the PNMs. I can share that I know of some organizations that cut PNMs because of the (extremely lewd) profile and pictures they had posted on Facebook. I can add that when I saw one of the PNMs on Facebook, I was glad I wasn't in the chapter and having to make the decision about whether I wanted someone who seemed to be into public soft porn doing it while wearing my letters. That may be judgemental of me, and I'm okay with that - I don't know that my organization can afford to take that kind of a hit to its reputation. However, I wonder if it is fair to do this, when it would take just one person to say to the PNM, "hey, make sure your Facebook profile is classy and clean before recruitment starts".

[FSUZeta]

if she is stupid enough to post her soft porn on facebook, she should expect to suffer the consequences. chapters(and their advisors) don't need to have to deal with this-a chapters rep. can be ruined by one person and take years to rectify(if it ever recovers).

[megananne86]

At my campus they are pretty strict about facebook stuff and greek life. My chapter is even stricter. I cannot have my letters or chapter appear anywhere on my profile or in any pictures. We are not allowed to have any pictures of alcohol or letters(even on shirts on our facebook). With the alcohol pictures it does not matter if you are 21. We are not even allowed to comment on others pictures or have comment on our own with any words relating to alcohol, drunkness, or hangovers.

During recruitment we are required to not accept any friendship requests from any girls. We are required to have our profiles set as private as possible. We have to have it set so that people cannot view our friends(this way they can't see which Gamma Chi's or recruitment counselors you are friends with.) Our sorority group on facebook has to be private and by invitation only. Our Panhel does check random profiles to make sure that no one is adding PNM's.