Be very careful with what you and your friends post on Facebook.

Your Facebook presence may be damaging to you and to your friends.

This is adapted from an e-mail sent to me by Barbara Huntington, PHP Director at SDSU:

Hi Students,

This is urgent.  At the conference for admissions officers and preprofessional health advisors in Santa Fe, we spent several sessions talking about the use of Face Book in medical school admissions and many do check.  Please accept these suggestions as serious and urgent.

1.  Don't post anything you wouldn't want your mother, your boss, an admissions officer, or me to see.  (Please don't block me or I won't be able to warn you if something could hurt you.)

2.  Go through all your pictures of anything that might be even slightly inappropriate (folks looking drunk, holding bottles of liquor, in revealing clothes, discussing parts of anatomy, using foul language, etc) and take off all the tags--especially of people applying to health prof. schools.  Even if the picture itself is ok,  take off the tags if it is in a group of pictures that might lead one to believe the person was at an inappropriate place/party.

3.  Then go back and erase any of those kinds of pictures or pix of friends in groups of those pictures.

4.  Take out any comments that look like you are trying to be sneaky, or you wouldn't want the schools you or your friends are applying to to see.

5.  Some of your friends are applying now, so don't wait.

I realize everyone is enjoying all the fun stuff (and you should) at the end of school, but you also don't want to brand CBU as a party school of students who might not show the best judgement in posting on Facebook because YOU ARE FROM CBU AND WILL BE  JUDGED AS A PRODUCT OF THAT SCHOOL  --Best wishes on your finals and have fun (but be discrete)