One Facebook picture and no Scholarship!

That's crazy!! Chances are that they will have to change those rules, considering the number of people who have accounts and pictures on Facebook. But in your case, Sarah, I think it would be a good idea to create a Facebook account but not put any pictures on it, unless of course, you don't want to. That way, you can tell them you have an account and also that you have no pictures!

Well, if I have understood what you wanted to express in your own thread, the first part, I can also understand. If nothing else, I do not know how far a person can post pictures of a certain kind on Facebook. I personally am opposed to the exposure of risqué photos. The second part of your question, I am not very clear. What does it mean that one should necessarily have an account on Facebook to get ahead in life? I just hope it does not, otherwise it would be a real buffoonery!

I guess it kind of amazes me that people giving out scholarships would take the time to look for those things on Facebook.

Isn't this like a lesson in responsibility for young people? That when they do social networking sites, they should be responsible enough to know that anything posted online, would be online forever. And could be seen by anybody looking for it. Or maybe a lesson in time conservation. As you say/wrote, this could be viewed as a 'waste of time' really.

It is getting real out of hand with all this FaceBook stuff. I don't see why these places need your FaceBook information to begin with. Look, I have a FaceBook account, I don't have risqué pictures, but it's my account, not theirs. They have no right to it. And if I were a college kid or a person looking for a job, I would lock my account to the public so no one can see what I have on my FaceBook. I think that is digging into the personal privacy of people. I bet these people asking for that information have real screwed up FaceBook accounts. What is after they ask us for our FaceBook information, we ask them for their FaceBook information. Now thats an idea.

Well, I think that the scholarship's Foundation are taking Facebook as one of the criteria to decide whether a student deserve a help or not, but maybe it is not the only reason for giving a scholarship. The same could happen when an employer will hire a worker. If only the membership of Facebook would be necessary to get a job or a scholarship I wouldn't agree with that.

I completely agree with you. Look at all the non-facebookers out there, or those who's jobs didn't depend on their Facebook, and yet they screwed up anywa? Bill Clinton Dominic Strauss-Kahn Richard Nixon Rupert Murdoch The guys from Enron Need I go on? And whatconstitutes risque? I've never posted a pic of me half naked, but I have a modestly dressed pic or two of me PRETENDING to be passed out on a couch with a drink in my hand. haha Hey, if risque pictures are grounds for unemployment, then I suggest Playboy pull the plug on their whole establishment! Of course the nice thing about going on line so often is that if anyone tries anything (an employer tries to sexually harass me for example) I'll probably have some kind of recording device in my pocket, and you just KNOW I'm going to publish the recording of whatever the b_st_rd said. Hasn't happened yet, but if it does, I'm ready! I never go anywhere without my iPhone. I used it to gathe evidence when my stupid neighbour was harassing me. I could very easily crush him with what I have, and not because anyone's judging a bok by it's cover, just because it is what it is, and I've got it recorded. LOL

I say whether it be facebook or any other place on the internet you should be very careful about what you post....because whatever you do post is open to the whole world to judge.

I think it's crazy that schools and potential employers would go so far as to look at someone's Facebook profile. It's a social networking site, so to me, it's as if that college professor or potential employer were to butt into a personal conversation this person was having with a friend. Everyone has a right to a personal as well as professional life. It's not like anyone is trying to be two-faced or live a double life, but I don't think professional acquaintances need to dip into the personal realm. Facebook is the personal realm, in my opinion. I think it would be more than appropriate for a potential employer to look at a LinkedIn profile since that's what the site was set up for, professional networking. I'm not sure if you're familiar with LinkedIn, but there's some space for status updates, hobbies, and interests, but it's nothing like Facebook. I think there's an understood line drawn between personal and professional. Any employer or school that violates that boundary is not someone I would want to deal with going forward!

it is all FB's fault!! lol. I mean, really? i thought no one should take fb seriously..but seriously!!! cmon.

That's lame. Almost everybody has a Facebook account so they should just leave Facebook alone and look at the student's skills instead. Plus companies looking for applicants with Facebook accounts? There are other sites out there that presents applicants formally, so why don't they just look there? Facebook is an unformal site, and really meant to be personalized by users to fit their personality, not to serve as basis if someone is right to work for their company or not. It doesn't matter if you don't have a Facebook account. What matters is your skills to do a job well. That's a pretty radical way to hire applicants.

There are just so many reasons why having a Facebook account is a bad idea. People drastically overestimate the importance of Facebook to begin with. It causes more headaches than it has more benefits. And the fact that your job aspirations tend to really hang on whether or not you have a Facebook account, really is getting more absurd. Granted, most people do tend to shoot themselves in the foot by posting things that they should be posting. Facebook is a waste of time, plain and simple and really the fact that people have a Facebook account and use it fairly often, for many hours a day would make be inclined to believe that they might take their studies or their work seriously when they are messing around on Facebook. Social media in general has gotten out of control. But then again, there will be something bigger and I'm sure even more overhyped than Facebook in the next five years.

There are also employers asking for your Facebook username and password before hiring you! Insane breach of privacy, but Facebook is mostly public! Jobs do background checks and personality tests all the time. They want to be informed on who they're dealing with. What does a picture focusing on your hoohas say about your personality? What about a gallery full of weeks after weeks of you getting drunk? Technology has brought forth a lot of fun and useful things. Gotta take the good with the bad i guess.