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What?tina3 wrote:This is silly, but is there a way law schools can find out you have a dating site account? Would they hold it against you if you did? Is it like the situation with Facebook etc. where you need to delete/disable it when you apply?
franklyscarlet wrote:
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Haha, I could have worded my question better. My friend applied to law school last year and he told me that they have a way of using your IP number to see what sites you have accounts on like a dating site (ie. OkCupid). I thought it sounded a bit paranoid, but he said that every law school applicant knows this. So, basically, I am asking if this is true. I am on several of these sites and was wondering if there is anything to worry about, like they will somehow be able to find my profile.franklyscarlet wrote:What?tina3 wrote:This is silly, but is there a way law schools can find out you have a dating site account? Would they hold it against you if you did? Is it like the situation with Facebook etc. where you need to delete/disable it when you apply?
Wait... What?
Thanks for the explanation. It is a little ridiculous to think they would care, but then you hear all these things about Facebook. I'm not sure how big of a deal all of this is to them if a person has a high LSAT and GPA.Br3v wrote:OP, that is TLS talk for "no they will not care about your online dating site"
Edit: in reference to this
franklyscarlet wrote:
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Again, this is paranoid, but my friend submitted his application off a library computer so that the application would not be submitted from a computer that he used for social networking or personal matters so they would not have his computer's IP address.Br3v wrote:No, humans do not have IP numbers, computers have IP [addresses] however.
Do you intend on submitting your PC with your application?
The real issue here is that your friend is a nutbag.tina3 wrote:Again, this is paranoid, but my friend submitted his application off a library computer so that the application would not be submitted from a computer that he used for social networking or personal matters so they would not have his computer's IP address.Br3v wrote:No, humans do not have IP numbers, computers have IP [addresses] however.
Do you intend on submitting your PC with your application?
franklyscarlet wrote:The real issue here is that your friend is a nutbag.tina3 wrote:Again, this is paranoid, but my friend submitted his application off a library computer so that the application would not be submitted from a computer that he used for social networking or personal matters so they would not have his computer's IP address.Br3v wrote:No, humans do not have IP numbers, computers have IP [addresses] however.
Do you intend on submitting your PC with your application?
franklyscarlet wrote:The real issue here is that your friend is a nutbag.tina3 wrote:Again, this is paranoid, but my friend submitted his application off a library computer so that the application would not be submitted from a computer that he used for social networking or personal matters so they would not have his computer's IP address.Br3v wrote:No, humans do not have IP numbers, computers have IP [addresses] however.
Do you intend on submitting your PC with your application?
Your friend is a dumb.tina3 wrote:Again, this is paranoid, but my friend submitted his application off a library computer so that the application would not be submitted from a computer that he used for social networking or personal matters so they would not have his computer's IP address.Br3v wrote:No, humans do not have IP numbers, computers have IP [addresses] however.
Do you intend on submitting your PC with your application?
Not actually true, as this depends on the privacy policies of various sites and your settings thereon.LOLyer wrote:They can find pretty much any account you have through your email address. This includes your TLS account.
I would encourage everyone (especially the more douchey TLS posters) to use a different email address for online activity than the one you put on your resume.
Yes, if you want to get technical. But many (I would say the majority) of sites display your email on at least one page that a search engine scanning bot has access to.BVest wrote:Not actually true, as this depends on the privacy policies of various sites and your settings thereon.LOLyer wrote:They can find pretty much any account you have through your email address. This includes your TLS account.
I would encourage everyone (especially the more douchey TLS posters) to use a different email address for online activity than the one you put on your resume.