Written by Emily Banks
You wake up: it’s noon on a Sunday. Your vision is blurry, your head is pounding, and your whole body feels like it has been hit by a runaway truck speeding down Highway 80. You roll over, groaning into your pillow while simultaneously wondering how the hell you were even able to get home, let alone in bed, and notice your camera sitting next to you. You pick it up, turn it on, and look through all of the photos of a night you scarcely remember. The slutty group hugs, barely-conscious friends sporting their infamous red cups, and the occasional bong-rip action shots seem endless. The obvious next step? You pull up your laptop and put them all on Facebook. Unfortunately, however, your Facebook friends aren’t the only ones who can look at them; colleges can too. With the number of college applicants reaching an all-time high, more and more admissions officers are now turning to Facebook stalking in order to make that final decision.
A recent survey produced by Kaplan, an education company owned by the Washington Post, found that out of 500 top colleges surveyed, 10 percent of admissions officers said that they’d used social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to evaluate their applicants.
