[Lamplighter]

...that everyone has embarrassing moments, and stop using it against one another. I'm suspecting the latter, myself.

... never happen, GI. By coincidence, this article is in today's NY Times

NY Times
NATASHA SINGER
11/9/13

They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets.

At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking
about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students.
Throughout the presentation, she apparently posted disparaging comments on Twitter
about her fellow attendees, repeatedly using a common expletive.<snip>

“We would have wondered about the judgment of someone who spends their time
on their mobile phone and makes such awful remarks,” Mr. Meiklejohn said.<snip>

As certain high school seniors work meticulously this month to finish their early applications to colleges,
some may not realize that comments they casually make online could negatively affect their prospects.
In fact, new research from Kaplan Test Prep, the service owned by the Washington Post Company,
suggests that online scrutiny of college hopefuls is growing.

Of 381 college admissions officers who answered a Kaplan telephone questionnaire this year,
31 percent said they had visited an applicant’s Facebook or other personal social media page
to learn more about them — a five-percentage-point increase from last year.

More crucially for those trying to get into college, 30 percent of the admissions officers said
they had discovered information online that had negatively affected an applicant’s prospects.