While reading the “About Facebook” article by Ari Melber in class, I came across the part in the article where it discusses how police use social networking sites such as Facebook to investigate crimes. I instantly thought about a situation that happened last year in high school. A boy in my grade, Joey, had his profile picture set as a picture of himself holding a gun with his hand on the trigger. One day the local police showed up at Joey’s house and searched his house for the gun. It turns out that Joey didn’t have a license for the gun and got into trouble with the police for it. Most people don‘t think twice about who will see their Facebooks when they are posting photos and other things on their Facebook.
This article also mentions how it has been recommended to people applying for jobs to change their Facebook profiles and pictures while applying for jobs. This reminded me of the Recruitment process for sororities. Our Rho Gammas advised us to make our Facebook accounts private so that the different sororities cannot look at our profiles and pictures while the recruitment process was in progress. This is because some things on people’s Facebooks may stop them from being invited back to the next rounds in the recruitment process.
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