International Law

Be careful what you Facebook ...

A warning to us all ... be careful what is on your Facebook profile, as you never know who will be looking at it one day:

A Cambridge University admissions tutor has admitted he checks up on students applying to his college by browsing their Facebook profiles. Dr Richard Barnes, senior tutor at Emmanuel College, confessed in the college magazine.

"This has been the year in which I joined Facebook," he wrote. "I have to confess that I actually joined to see what I was missing and also to check up (discreetly) on applicants for a college position. I had been alerted to the value of this by some of our members in the City." Cambridge University played down the comment as a "throwaway line". "You know perfectly well how our admission procedures work," said a spokesman.

Read more here (from The Guardian).

Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on January 11, 2008 (boomark / email).