College students should use social media respectfully and professionally. They should avoid posting explicit pictures, offensive language, or speaking negatively about employers. It is important to understand privacy settings, proofread posts, avoid spreading rumors, and use social media authentically and to network. Social media may be the primary way others get to know students, so they should share content mindfully.

1. Best ethical ways to use social
media for college students
Sopufa Whyte and Josh Glaze

2. Religion
• Being respectful to everyone religious beliefs.

3. Explicit Pictures
• Having discretion when posting pictures because they can come back
to haunt you.

4. Offensive Language
• Being mindful of what you say because everyone might not have your
sense of humor if you are giving a joke, or understanding the context
from which you are speaking from.

5. Don’t speak bad about employers
• It will look bad on your behalf and other companies or future will not
hire you

6. Being Professional
• Having a professional platform for when employers look you up.

7. Being active and networking
• Use social media to share content and get to know others.

8. Privacy
• If you don’t want everything out for people to see it is important to
understand what you want to be private.

9. Always proof read the content before posting
• One must proof read the content to make sure that it is the proper
message that they are trying to post, and also to check for errors.

10. Don’t spread rumors and lies
• Do not spread information on topics that you are not fully aware of,
or just share letting others user know that you only heard.

11. Knowing your intentions
• You must be authentic to yourself and understand why you are using
social media. One also must know that this might be the only way
people will know you exist, so sharing content with these things in
mind.