Posted on 11/11/2013 7:03:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students. Throughout the presentation, she apparently posted disparaging comments on Twitter about her fellow attendees, repeatedly using a common expletive.
Perhaps she hadn’t realized that colleges keep track of their social media mentions.
“It was incredibly unusual and foolish of her to do that,” Scott A. Meiklejohn, Bowdoin’s dean of admissions and financial aid, told me last week. The college ultimately denied the student admission, he said, because her academic record wasn’t competitive. But had her credentials been better, those indiscreet posts could have scuttled her chances.
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The unwritten rule: no politics, not even a “like” on something political, nothing disparaging. My friends do the same.
Keep the disparaging stuff here under a pseudonym.
Social Media is wonderful from that aspect. After visiting their FaceBook account, I’ve screened out countless applicants that would have gotten an interview or even a job.
I have a FB account. I never post a single word about work or co-workers. Mostly I just post dog photos. That is all that is safe,
What’s ridiculous is that I had some old high school friends, who turned out to be liberal, “unfriend” me, not because of anything I said on FB, but merely because they noticed that I never “liked” any of their liberal rants......Oh well.
A peeve of mine: people who can no longer attend a social event—or even meet you for coffee—without pulling out their cell or iPad and trying to take a picture of you/it all.
Digital history....
There’s a lot of pitfalls for kids today that we didn’t have.
All the transgressions of my youth are nothing more than faded memories in the heads of old men and women LOL.
Sounds like a sleezy pick-up line:
“Hey baby! Show me your tweets!”
Next it will be your thoughts!
Cameras everywhere, spying on your correspondence, recording all your phone calls and emails, making more and more words unavailable for free speech, electronically tracking your movements, choosing “for you” your health care providers, collecting and digitizing all your personal medical information, choosing “for you” whom you can run for elected office, removing God from the public square and Jesus from existence, deciding “for you” what toilet, light bulb, drink size, pop corn oil, frying oil, spice, gas can spout, gun type and magazine capacity, you can possess, own, eat, or use.
Am I the only one who doesn’t just “bend over and grab the ankles” every time some “authority” tells me what I can and can do or have, or say?
Oh well, just don’t tweet things. Sacrifice your freedoms without a whimper?
My father taught me. Maybe this student doesn't have a dad to teach her the reality of life.
I say female here because they talk on the phone more than the males do. At least they have been doing so for as long as I can remember. I might be wrong.
I knew that I talked on the phone so much I would irritate my father. SO I worked summers and Christmas and got my own phone. BOY was it WONDERFUL.
“Never...ever....use common expletives. I guess.... ??”
Indeed. It shows how dull you are. To REALLY get their attention you have to use uncommon expletives to spice things up. Construction sites and sailer’ bars are excellent places to increase your expletive vocabulary.
SO true.
There have always been pitfalls for every generation. My mother had the depression and then WWII. I had the 60's. We got through them the best we could.
Who listened to their parents? I did SOMETIMES.
“They need a Miranda statement for Twitter and FB.
“Anything you say here can and will be used against you”.
I just linked this article with your excellent comments and sent it to our grandkids, grand nieces/nephews and some of our younger relatives.
What saved my bacon was that in the mid 60s, Michigan (where I was going to school) didn’t transmit traffic violations back to Ohio (where I had my license).
Someone can sue for just about any reason, but it is harder to win a lawsuit for serious injuries in a car accident if the plaintiff posts pictures on Facebook of her recent surfing trip.
Who says Facebook has no value?!
The level of discourse on social media is about second grade.
That's a problem only for people who believe that claiming 5000 friends on Facebook is a positive life achievement.
I really don't care much. But it illustrates what our level of discourse has sunk to.
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