Facebook Connecting Freshmen Before Arriving
Posted: August 22nd, 2007, 12:59 pm
Aug. 21, 2007, 6:01PM
Facebook can't beat face time for new college roommates
By MONICA VON DOBENECK
Newhouse News Service
Diane Paul discovered an embellishment when her daughter, Jillian, checked out a Web page of her roommate at Liberty University. Up popped a photo of a glamour queen, but they found out later that it wasn't the roommate's real photo.Click Here for Full Story
Paul met the roommate when she took Jillian to campus and said she was a "lovely, lovely girl," if a little shy.
"I had no major angst," Paul said. "I think this is not atypical."
Paul said she thinks students should not post anything online that they would not want someone's parent or future boss to see.
"What seems benign at 17 might be embarrassing later in life," the new college student's mom said.