good advice from Cornell on facebook

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<p>I found this exceptionally well-written, thoughtful, comprehensive advice. </p>

<p>Students would do well to read and heed this advice before they set up their facebook pages. </p>

<p>I, for one, was not aware of the technical difficulties associated with removing all traces of cached websites from search engines like google and the wayback machine website, even after the student has had second thoughts and edited his facebook page to remove indiscretions.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cit.cornell.edu/policy/memos/facebook.html[/url]”>http://www.cit.cornell.edu/policy/memos/facebook.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Wisteria- there was just a story on the news yesterday about how employers are checking the face book to get info on perspective employees. I told my d to turn on the tv to catch the story. She did and said she knew all that already and she is careful. She’s at Cornell so I guess she is learning something useful.</p>

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<p>Thanks for posting that link - </p>

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<p>I completely agree - </p>

<p>I was also unaware about caching - good to know</p>

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Wise words from the Cornell website. This enhances my already good opinion of Cornell.</p>

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<p>This is why I have an email strictly for friends/social (same id as my AIM, msn, other forums) and another one for resumes/internship applications etc.</p>

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<p>Just use common sense. Think before you enter something that could come back and haunt you.</p>

<p>BTW… Google and the Internet Archive are not able to cache facebook profiles (because it uses the Walled-Garden approach) unless you link to your publicly-available facebook url (the one found at Facebook) on another website.</p>