College students who use Facebook are fast learning that it’s hard to come across as a pillar of the community when you’re posting details about your life on the Web. At Boston University, where a lecturer was fired last year for posting inappropriate messages on a different message board, students say they worry that the social-networking site is too open to professors and prospective employers. And a number of underclassmen in the university’s Student Advisors program, who serve as mentors to freshmen, have made it a point to scrub their Facebook profiles of references to alcohol and drugs. (The Daily Free Press)
