Advcie for college students

SOCIAL MEDIA ADVICE FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS

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

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!

THINKING ABOUT YOUR POSTIn 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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

..HAVE FUNAfter 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!