<p>At my school the RAs are required to notify housing if you have a picture of yourself drinking on Facebook.
As for posting info on it, I’ve personally always realized that about 10k people would have access to anything I’d say, and do I really think not one of them is a potential stalker who’d love stuff like my cell #? Might sound paranoid but somehow it doesn’t seem worth risking it.</p>
<p>I’ve talked to some corporate recruiters (mainly in investment banking) and i’ve been told that they use facebook to research their applicants…these recruiters are alums of the colleges they recruit at thus they already have an account or can use their alum e-mail to create an account. A friend of mine had an interview in which the recruiter asked about some incriminating pics on facebook.</p>
<p>UPDATE</p>
<p>There was an update this morning on the original incident at Dartmouth. The Facebook was not what the Hanover police used to identify the person, it was the Green Book, which is the old fashioned version of the facebook, a literal facebook, the book they give to freshman with pictures and short blurbs about their classmates.</p>
<p>This does not in any way change the fact that Facebook is a very public piece of the Internet, and users should beware.</p>
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<p>I found this impossible to believe and had to look it up for myself, it is true.
<a href=“http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30288[/url]”>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30288</a></p>
<p>My opinion of Virginia before this was sketchy (no radar detector laws, $1000 fine for parking in handicapped space, laws against crusing by the beach etc.) now I am GLAD I don’t live in that hellhole gestapo commonwealth. Who the frick (insert f-word here) do these a-holes think they are? I do not drink anymore, but give me a damn break. These police should be arrested and tried for police brutality, and never be allowed to be a law enforcement officer again! This is Nazi Germany, plain and simple. </p>
<p>So to some up: DON’T MOVE TO VIRGINIA!!! (unless you want the police to run your life)</p>
<p>From Baddger Beat:</p>
<p>WARNING ABOUT FACEBOOK
By Detective Douglas Scheller
A large problem facing law enforcement today is Internet based financial fraud, one aspect of
which is phishing where suspects obtain personal information like bank account numbers,
social security numbers, and credit card information under false pretenses. Law enforcement
has invested heavily in prevention strategies to help combat these crimes, attempting to educate
consumers on how to safeguard sensitive information.
However, the gathering of and abuse of personal information is not just related to financial
crimes. Another very serious crime which involves the abuse of personal information is stalking.
Stalking suspects will often go to great lengths to acquire information about their victims,
and the Internet has unfortunately often enabled stalkers to obtain sensitive information very
easily.
A very popular internet site which has spread rapidly through the college environment is
Facebook.com. The site has been described as a yearbook-like site that allows students to
post public profiles that can include photographs, contact information, and other interest related
information. Students can also link to friends who also have Facebook profiles. Students are
limited to viewing profiles from their own school, and users can restrict what information is
visible.
The UW-Madison Police Department wants to remind students, staff and faculty that any personal
information they put on profiles on Facebook or any other similar site can be viewed by
many thousands of people and that this information can be abused. Information concerning address,
cellular telephone numbers, date of birth, classes/major, home towns/high schools and
also photographs etc, should be carefully guarded. The bottom line when considering whether
to post this information in a forum of any kind is whether this information could be used against
you by someone intent on harassing or stalking you. Also remember that many stalking suspects
are actually fellow students or University employees, who because they hold U.W-Madison email
accounts, would have access to your Facebook profiles.</p>
<p>There actually was another recent murder in Hanover, at the Chieftan Motor Inn about a mile out of town (the Zanthop murders were in Etna, a village about 4 miles away):</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006012401010&sheadline=&sauthor=&stext=motor%20inn[/url]”>http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006012401010&sheadline=&sauthor=&stext=motor%20inn</a></p>
<p>However, it appears to be completely disassociated with Dartmouth. Aside from the Zanthop murders, there have apparently been no homicides in Hanover for over 45 years.</p>