wait omg this is ridiculous. the school can't do anything about it! its not on school property so they're not allowed to have any say in it. and also it seems highly unlikely that colleges will run an internet search on EVERY applicant. and its not like typing in someone's full name on some search will bring up those pics anyway....ugh, this just makes cirq and th2 sound stupid as hell for being surprised that kids like drink and do drugs. i mean, duh.
responseirishrose49September 23 2006, 03:12:59 UTC
Nowhere did I say I was surprised that kids were drinking. How is that any sort of surprise??? My reaction was 1) how oblivious are parents 2) how foolish are students to allow (when they do b/c I know sometimes they don't know they are being photographed, but when you are mugging for the camera holding pot, etc...) photos to be taken 3) what kind of people do you hang out with who would put those online 4) people in those are easily identifiable, as far as schools, etc. and sexual predators are professional at this sort of thing, so the females are doing nothing but putting themselves at risk 5) it is not a matter of a college looking you up when you apply, but the fact that once things are online, they exist forever, even if the site is taken down, b/c they could've been copied, so a person never knows when something could come back to haunt them...I'll stop there. I think you get my point. If you look at what I said you'll notice I have not passed judgment on what the students were doing in the pictures one way or the other, nor
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Secondly, it's none of the school's business to act upon anything they see on myspace.
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