Whos Seeing Youre FACEBOOK

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Are YOU Part of the Phenomenon?
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• What you can do with facebook
• You can see where old
• faces wound up
• Students can establish
• friendships through
• common interests
• Connect with people in
• your classes
• Network

You need to be careful!
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• Downside to Facebook Privacy
• Privacy options pertain only to blocking entire
  profiles, or limiting certain information such as
  phone numbers and screen names to friends or
  students only. Users can create secret groups
  that are invitation only, but public groups are
  open to all Facebook users at that university.
  Additionally, those in other university networks
  who are friends with a single user can click
  around groups, read the message boards and see
  who has joined the groupeven if the members
  profile is set to private.

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• Be careful with personal information
• Many students include a lot of information, much
  of it quite personal, in their individual
  profiles.  Information such as cellular phone
  numbers, room numbers or addresses, class
  schedules, personal websites, pictures and job
  information often are readily available for
  Friends to view. Many students are not very
  discriminating regarding who they designate as
  Friends, often granting this designation to
  people they have just met or to Friends of
  Friends. This practice can put students in a
  vulnerable position when so much personal
  information is available. 
• The Facebook also is used as a way to meet
  people and for dating.  Students are sometimes
  naïve and may be duped by another Friends
  profile, especially if theyve just met the
  person or dont really know them. Students need
  to be careful about going to meet other people in
  person when they only know the other person
  from online contact.

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• Last bit of Advice
• You need to be aware of how your personal
  information might be used by others, If you
  engage in ANY illegal behaviorwhether you post
  it on Facebook or notyou are putting yourself at
  risk not only of Student Code of Conduct charges,
  but much more in terms of the achievement of your
  personal and educational goals

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• Things to think about for the future
• Students will be students, of course -- but
  students should beware. Employers have caught
  wind of this new national pastime of their
  entry-level job candidates. In fact, a student at
  Vermont Technical College recently had a job
  offer rescinded by an employer who saw the
  student's Facebook profile.
• Career centers are increasingly concerned that
  students do not understand the consequences of
  posting questionable material in the public
  domain -- which may be retrievable by online
  search engines for years to come -- and are
  taking steps to educate students. This can even
  include the "patrolling" of students' online
  profiles, raising questions about privacy and
  freedom of speech.

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Be careful of what you post you never know who
may see it
Future Employers
Teachers
Family (Parents)
Government Officials
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• By Jennifer Pineau
• Community Advisor
• Plymouth State University
• Plymouth, NH