This document provides social media advice for college students. It discusses maintaining professionalism on Facebook by filtering posts and review tags before they appear. LinkedIn is recommended for finding jobs and allowing employers to find students, and emphasizes building a profile over time. When posting, students are advised to consider what they post and how it could affect their image or others, as past posts may impact futures. Using social media strategically and developing a personal brand are also recommended.

1. SOCIAL MEDIA ADVICE FOR
COLLEGE STUDENTS

2. LETS TALK FACEBOOK
Friending co-workers, friends, and family is a common thing on
all social media sites. Remembering to Remain professional
and show the best side of you. To do this you can not only filter
what you post but you can also allow what you're tagged in to
be seen by others. To do this you must,
 Go to your privacy settings
 Click Timeline and Tagging
 Find “Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline?”
 Click On
 It also is a great idea to make sure all your privacy settings are up to date

3. ALL ABOUT LINKEDIN
LinkedIn is an amazing site for all college student. You can look for
jobs which will be helpful in the long run. Also, be found by employers
and recruiters. LinkedIn can be used to and start your own personal
branding. According to their website it has 400+ million members!
 Go to https://www.linkedin.com/ and start your free profile today!
 Make sure to include your school, major, and experiences.
 Including a resume will also be beneficial!
 The great thing about LinkedIn is you can build it overtime, keeping up with it is key.
 You have to start somewhere!

4. THINKING ABOUT YOUR POST
In todays world social media is a big thing. In the upcoming years it will
continue to grow more and more, thinking about what you post on any and
every social media platform is an important thing to do
 If you're going to vent, think about what you're venting about. Do you really need all your
friends and followers to know?
 Be careful of what words you use and what type of person you portray online.
 Be careful of peoples feeling, you do not want to start a cyber war.

5. FOR YOUR FUTURE
 Along the lines of the last piece of advice, keep in mind that things can
come back to haunt you. Even if you delete it, is it really ever deleted from
the internet? Past post can hinder your future without you even realizing it
be smart about your pictures and post. Also monitoring what your friends
post about you helps in the long run as well.

6. USING AND LEARNING ALL SOCIAL
MEDIA
Not all things on social media are bad. Using social media to your advantage
is ideal in this day and age. It is a great tool for any college student. Learning
how to use social media sites is a good thing. Use them to your advantage!

7. PERSONAL BRANDING
Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their
careers as brands. Personal branding can help establish credibility and more.
Create recognition for yourself. It is an excellent tool to not only use in the
future but to begin using now.

8. USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO KEEP
CURRENT
Today using social media to keep up with news and current events is
important. Knowing what's going on around you as a college student is
helpful in a lot of ways. Being informed can help you with multiple things.
Following news accounts and more is a great way to do so.

9. POSTING PICTURES
Although, drinking is not for everyone while, in college kids often decide to
party and when all is said and done make sure that there are no pictures of
you doing so. Regardless or not if your of age it could portray a bad image of
you. Make sure that your monitoring your friends post as well.

10. DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU
READ
Just because you read something online does not mean it is true. Be careful
when you are doing research or see articles on social media do not be so
quick to believe them of course there are multiple articles online that are true
and helpful but always make sure you are sure of a post. In all of that being
said make sure that what you post online is equally credible.

11. ..HAVE FUN
After all the advice, this advice may be confusing to understand but also use
social media and have fun! Being college students using social media should
be fun and we should like social media, if you need to creating private
accounts could work and more. Keep in mind being cautious is a great idea
too!