"They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets"

Yesterday, we read an article called "They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets." It was about social media and how more and more colleges are looking at your social media posts. The article talked about how high school seniors work hard to turn in applications to college but what they do online is affecting them in a negative way.

Things that surprised me in this article was that 381 college admissions officers who answered a Kaplan telephone questionnaire said that 31 percent visited the applicant's Facebook or other social media so they could learn more about them. 30 percent of the admissions said the information they found out about them had affected them negatively. It also surprised me that most admission officers are young and technology-savvy, not older professors. One other thing they said is that students maintain two Facebook accounts and "sanitizing" there social media so it seems more appealing to colleges. Why would you not have it clean in the first place?

Things that confused me about the article was that some admission officers look at online material about applicants on an ad hoc basis. This confused me because I wasn't sure what an ad hoc basic was.

Does this article make me re-think my social media posts? No, this article doesn't affect me and I'm not worried about who looks at my social media accounts. There is nothing that I've posted that can effect me in a negative way.

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