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Speakers team up to offer Facebook awareness
Alexandra Prim
Issue date: 11/29/07 Section: News
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Wherever there is a camera, chances are that there is someone saying, "Tag me on Facebook."
Unfortunately, pictures of students on the immensely popular website may come back to haunt them in the future.
On Monday night, Nov. 19, the department of Career Development and Residential Life collaborated in the Merton Hall great room to educate students on the dangers that go along with using Facebook.com.
Students were informed on how to display an appropriate image online, even in the early college years, so that potential employers find suitable candidates when they search online.
"Facebook is growing like a wildfire," said Nicole Davison, assistant director of career development at Sacred Heart University.
"I have been talking about Facebook for years and every year it has changed. Facebook is so new to our society that students think that they're safe and everything can be private. As each year goes on, we are realizing that it can not," said Davison.
Davison spoke to a small crowd about different ways in which Facebook accounts make students liable for their actions.
Your generation has grown up with the internet and there is this feeling of being invincible, but people have lost jobs and scholarships, and we want to educate our students so they can protect themselves, said Davison.
"A few years ago, students hung out in a lounge. Now the internet has become that place," said Quintong. "Facebook has become your room, your lounge," said Joel Quintong, director of residential life.
According to him, just because something appears online does not mean that it warrants no consequence.
"Resident Assistants don't go on Facebook searching for certain violations, but if they saw pictures on the site, it would be the responsibility of the university to investigate," said Quintong.
If there are pictures of underage students consuming alcohol in dorm rooms and a R.A. on Facebook is able to identify any of the students, it is the job of the R.A. to notify a superior as if the students had been seen drinking in person. This is the policy of Sacred Heart, but Facebook also impacts the future workplace.
Unfortunately, pictures of students on the immensely popular website may come back to haunt them in the future.
On Monday night, Nov. 19, the department of Career Development and Residential Life collaborated in the Merton Hall great room to educate students on the dangers that go along with using Facebook.com.
Students were informed on how to display an appropriate image online, even in the early college years, so that potential employers find suitable candidates when they search online.
"Facebook is growing like a wildfire," said Nicole Davison, assistant director of career development at Sacred Heart University.
"I have been talking about Facebook for years and every year it has changed. Facebook is so new to our society that students think that they're safe and everything can be private. As each year goes on, we are realizing that it can not," said Davison.
Davison spoke to a small crowd about different ways in which Facebook accounts make students liable for their actions.
Your generation has grown up with the internet and there is this feeling of being invincible, but people have lost jobs and scholarships, and we want to educate our students so they can protect themselves, said Davison.
"A few years ago, students hung out in a lounge. Now the internet has become that place," said Quintong. "Facebook has become your room, your lounge," said Joel Quintong, director of residential life.
According to him, just because something appears online does not mean that it warrants no consequence.
"Resident Assistants don't go on Facebook searching for certain violations, but if they saw pictures on the site, it would be the responsibility of the university to investigate," said Quintong.
If there are pictures of underage students consuming alcohol in dorm rooms and a R.A. on Facebook is able to identify any of the students, it is the job of the R.A. to notify a superior as if the students had been seen drinking in person. This is the policy of Sacred Heart, but Facebook also impacts the future workplace.
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