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Private or Public Is your social media page appropriate for your parents views? Better yet is it appropriate for colleges or coaches to see? Colleges should use social media for acceptance eligibility for monitoring purposes, representation, and accountability. Colleges should use monitoring purposes for social media pages. One good example is to monitor the social page for drug use or suicidal post. According to Michael Martinez publisher of CNN: he said,( “California school district hires firm to monitor students' social media” . If somebody had been posting that they were doing drugs and was depressed and could have been on the verge of committing suicide, the people monitoring would have been able to see to notify someone to help. Monitoring somebody’s post if they are cursing all the time. Say you were going to a religious college and one of their rules was to not curse on social media sites. If somebody was the monitoring business would see it and would be able to notify and dean and student. This is why college should use monitoring purposes. Students applying for colleges that are in any sports, or other activities need to be careful how they represent themselves on social media sites. Stephanie Buck says, ” Whether it's a Google search or a social media examination, chances are a company is looking into your history”. Also if a student athlete had been partying the night before a game and had been posting pictures the night before. Coaches even other team mates would probably be embarrassed. Students have to remember that they are not just representing their team. At the outset students still are being idiots online and not realizing that colleges are still looking at their pages when they are posting inappropriate things. Why post stuff that you wouldn’t want your parents to see? Students, even adults need to remember who they are also representing besides themselves. Colleges will use social media pages for accountability. The best way to