Social Media

After reading this article about how colleges look into your social media, I take into context about how social media plays such big part in todays society.  Before reading this article I knew that social media played a pretty big role, but not as big as I thought.

I have some points to question in this article. How often do colleges and employers look at your social media and how big of a role in their application process is it?  If your social media is private I wonder if they can still see your account of if making it private actually stops them from seeing you= social media,

I was surprised to see that colleges and job employers use social media as part of their employment and application process.  When people tweet, post, pin, etc. shouldn't they have the right to freedom of speech no matter what?

This impacts my own thinking because now I think of social media as a place people such as employers and applicants can see me rather than being connected to the social world.http://blogs-images.forbes.com/kashmirhill/files/2011/09/Why-employers-rejected-candidates.jpg