One of the best ways to stay in touch with your friends and family is typically through social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook. Unfortunately, these sites are often one of the easiest ways to get in trouble and lose chances of gaining admission into your first choice school or winning scholarships. Why? More and more, admissions and scholarship committees are checking you out on the internet--they want to make sure they are making a good decision. Furthermore, if you get suspended because of something you post to your MySpace page, you hurt your academic record, and the chances for a successful application process.
When posting online, keep in mind:
- Your profile will be read by admissions and scholarship committees, whether you like it or not. Is there anything on there you don't want them to see?
- Although you're online, you're actions still have consequences. For example, a YouTube video of some girls bullying a classmate made headline news this week--those girls are facing jail time. No joke. Certainly you don't want to add "jail time" to your activity list!
- Think before you post. You want to put your best foot forward: if you are not sure whether or not you should post something, just leave it out.
Here's what not to do:
Another bad example of MySpace use:
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