Facebook and Froshlings

Miru
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:30:23 +0000

Ok, so last year when the floorcharts came out, I was friended by several of the upperclassmen in my dorm. I (very cautiously) accepted them, and a good number of them posted friendly welcoming messages and were generally helpful in answering questions about the dorm that hadn’t yet been answered by the general HMC 2012 group. When I got to school, I was able to remember the names of these upperclassmen much faster since I’d already had a little bit of face/name association from seeing their facebook profiles. So, as a frosh, the upperclassmen friending thing was an overall good experience.

…and back to the present: Floorcharts are going to be coming out soonish, and I’ve been considering friending the frosh who are going to be living near me, because I want to be friendly and welcoming and all the other cool stuff that the upperclassmen were to me last year. The thing is, I’m worried that I might get the wrong impression of these people from their facebooks, which is something I definitely don’t want to do. This wasn’t a problem last year since soooo many random people (both frosh and older) friended me that I couldn’t keep track. But I only intend to friend the 8 or so living near me this year, and therefore will probably remember a couple of things about them.

So, I’m hoping that some of you upperclassmen have friended frosh before meeting them. Was it worth it? (for learning names and getting them interested in the dorm community, etc) Or do you wish that you had waited to meet them in person (because you got impressions from their facebook that were totally incorrect).

If I don’t get responses I suppose I can move this to the general forums, I was just hoping I could get the opinion of someone closer to home.

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