The article "they loved your GPA, then they saw your tweets" By Natasha Singer is all about how social media can rowen our chances into getting into colleges.
Some colleges are now starting to look at what you post on social media, which can rowen your chances of getting in for some people. Even if you have great grades and were about to be accepted, if they see your social media and they see something they don't like they can just deny your application!
This wasn't too surprising to me that colleges did this, just because social media and electronics are just about everywhere, and i see how colleges and schools could use it in a beneficial way to themselves, but i was really surprised that even if a student could definitely get into that school to begin with that the school could just "toss them out" of the acceptence because of a post from social media that might not even be theirs!
My big question is what if that post wasn't theirs, or they got hacked and a college saw that that was being posted on your account? Even if those weren't your words, pictures or videos, colleges would be in the point of view that they were yours! I don't think this is fair for great students that don't have any bad posts, and then they don't get accepted because of another persons acts.
I think this article can impact just about anyone, because even if your out of college job imployers can look at your social media too, and anyone else.
We should all be careful on what we put on social media!
This article impacted me, even though i think I'm pretty good with social media, and brought to light that i should be even more careful than i am, and that it can impact my future.
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