Better to keep your Twitter account shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
If they discover that you are a conservative, say bye bye to that college of your dreams.
Actually she sounds like she would fit right in at Bowdoin. May even have a career on the faculty.
They need a Miranda statement for Twitter and FB.
“Anything you say here can and will be used against you”.
At least use an alias.
When applying to college, can your political opinions (posted on social sites) affect your potential acceptance?
Are the Universities now the biggest threat to free speech?
A Constitutional Amendment may be needed to actually define and protect privacy from 1) Government 2) Businesses 3) Healthcare 4) Non-for profit.
“....repeatedly using a common expletive...”
Never...ever....use common expletives. I guess.... ??
They need a Miranda statement for Twitter and FB.
“Anything you say here can and will be used against you”.
At least use an alias.
Hey look! Is that grandma?
Maybe she needs a Twater Account.
I don’t get how a supposedly tech-savvy generation that has grown up with the internet, FB, twitter and the like all their lives can be so tech-stupid.
There is very little you can’t find on the internet these days, and nothing you post out there ever really goes away. Using something as simple as the Internet Wayback Machine, I’ve found posts I’ve made on sites as far back as 1996.
“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.”
Translation: We would have admitted her but disqualified her for her tweets, but due to the litigious nature of the USA, we can’t say that so we stand by the statement above.
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,
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.