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In a hypothetical case of someone not giving you an offer because they facebooked you and saw you were or , are you sure that's "certainly legal"?

Unrelated: privacy settings; learn to love them, folks.]]>Nov 13th 2008 2:07AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/09/college-applications-negatively-affected-by-facebook-profiles-s/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/09/college-applications-negatively-affected-by-facebook-profiles-s/
I do not think it's fair or legal. For one, there are a lot of people with the same name. What if John Smith applying to Cornell is actually a decent guy, but the John Smith who happens to live in the same area and who is a drunken ass is the one with the facebook or myspace account?

Mistaken identity is VERY easy, especially when people don't put home addresses and full date of births on internet profiles and don't include self portraits with college applications.

Also, that's another reason why you make profiles PRIVATE!]]>Nov 10th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/09/college-applications-negatively-affected-by-facebook-profiles-s/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/09/college-applications-negatively-affected-by-facebook-profiles-s/Nov 24th 2008 1:52AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/11/09/college-applications-negatively-affected-by-facebook-profiles-s/http://www.switched.com/2008/11/09/college-applications-negatively-affected-by-facebook-profiles-s/
Either way, I dont think its ethical at all to be rejecting potential students based on their internet pages. It has nothing to do with the student themselves. Also, not always what you see is correct.

Someone said it before me... PRIVACY SETTINGS LEARN TO LOVE AND USE THEM. ]]>Dec 3rd 2008 10:13AM