If you have an .edu email addy you are so in!

[Wyndru]

No need to sell anything. Go get one for free.

That site is blocked here, but I assume based on your response that it's an edu domain that provides free email.

Haha, nice

 

[sygyzy]

The "flaw" is not really a flaw. While there are certainly non-students that have .edu accounts they are far and few between. They include professors, non-teaching staff and sometimes former students. But let's say you are a hiring director for a medium to large business. Right now, chances are your candidate, you, your assistant, heck, maybe even your husband has a Facebook account so you could look the candidate up without much trouble.

If you wanted to peek on CollegeOnly, what would you do? What are the chances you or your husband have an .edu address? Now you'll have to start asking around the HR department. If that fails, send out a company wide email asking for people with .edu addresses to help e-stalk a potential new candidate. It starts getting really creepy and uncomfortable.

 

[LtPage1]

I miss Facebook when it was exclusive.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

The "flaw" is not really a flaw. While there are certainly non-students that have .edu accounts they are far and few between. They include professors, non-teaching staff and sometimes former students. But let's say you are a hiring director for a medium to large business. Right now, chances are your candidate, you, your assistant, heck, maybe even your husband has a Facebook account so you could look the candidate up without much trouble.

If you wanted to peek on CollegeOnly, what would you do? What are the chances you or your husband have an .edu address? Now you'll have to start asking around the HR department. If that fails, send out a company wide email asking for people with .edu addresses to help e-stalk a potential new candidate. It starts getting really creepy and uncomfortable.

its an irrelevant solution to a problem that can be solved with spending 5 minutes to understand the privacy tools already in place on the site.

 

[ivan2]

the good ones will show up at 4chan quickly anyway.

 

[OutHouse]

Like others have said, just because you have a .edu email address doesn't make you a college student.

one would think a Princeton grad would know this.

my 6th, 8th and 11th grade kids all have .edu email addressees

epic fail

 

[olds]

So, if the potential employer checking up on a person was a school...

 

[rudder]

If you wanna be a whore thats fine. But dont expect your life to be private if you suck and fuck a dozen guys in the dorm. The Constitution doesnt extend privacy to those situations. If you cant handle that, dont be a whore. And in any case, the people who participate may spill the beans at any times they wish, so photographic evidence may not be necessary to ruin your life.
If you wanna run for president some day, just think about that.
This whole "I wanna do whatever the fuck I want and never be accountable for it" attitude doesnt actually exist in the real world. Shit always comes back to haunt you. Dont do anything you cant live with 20 years later.

yeh save that shit when you are elected to office or need to revive your acting career by releasing a sex tape. Young people these days do not understand this.

 

[Nik]

That site is blocked here, but I assume based on your response that it's an edu domain that provides free email.

Haha, nice

Yep! It's a real college, but anyone and everyone can sign up for a .edu address. Their registration form even asks what country you live in :awe:

 

[shortylickens]

Who would be so stupid as to believe that such a site would be secure from having others (parents, potential employers, etc.) see it? Oh yeah, college students.

Once you put anything on the Internet, it's available to pretty much anyone. You have to be very naive to believe that your information, especially on a non-secured site, isn't fairly public. Numerous times, even on this site, people have requested that we delete all of their old posts, because someone in their "real world" has discovered their online identity & is going to go through those posts. Lots of embarrassing things at times. Bummer.

Thats a polite, clean way of saying what I said.

 

[DrPizza]

The "flaw" is not really a flaw. While there are certainly non-students that have .edu accounts they are far and few between. They include professors, non-teaching staff and sometimes former students. But let's say you are a hiring director for a medium to large business. Right now, chances are your candidate, you, your assistant, heck, maybe even your husband has a Facebook account so you could look the candidate up without much trouble.

If you wanted to peek on CollegeOnly, what would you do? What are the chances you or your husband have an .edu address? Now you'll have to start asking around the HR department. If that fails, send out a company wide email asking for people with .edu addresses to help e-stalk a potential new candidate. It starts getting really creepy and uncomfortable.

Wouldn't it be simpler to hire a company that does online background checks for you?

 

[boomhower]

Horrible idea that wasn't thought out at all. Mine school, like most others, let's you keep your email for life. Heck they even forward it to whatever email your currently using.

 

[MovingTarget]

Facebook went downhill fast once they removed the .edu address requirement. It became a glorified myspace once that happened.

 

[Fenixgoon]

the idea that a .edu address limits registration to students only is stupid. many schools let alumni keep their email addresses.

 

[mizzou]

isn't this what the Hot or Not website was tailored for?