As students across the Kean University campus prepare themselves for the professional world, constant attention should always be given to the platforms they utilize while operating in this 'age of communication'. Sadly, the story of a student losing internships, leadership positions, and job opportunities to an act of unprofessionalism on a social media platform is becoming far too familiar. Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and similar social outlets provide many opportunities to network for business matters; whether these opportunities are seized by the individual user is a preference. Social media users looking to advance in the professional world may not need to utilize media platforms, but "prevention" should always be practiced. At Kean University, students who become involved on campus with leadership and professional positions, and demonstrate behavior damaging or in breach of their positions rules and regulations, may be subject to have their positions revoked under the student code of conduct disciplinary measures.
Students should be proactive about not letting such accounts take place. Similar cases unfortunately occur without the person's knowledge of the content which landed them in hot water in the first place. Passivity in handling one's account on any of these social media platforms is viewed as 'allowing the punishable act to take place'. Thus, users should take time to become knowledgeable about any privacy settings, or lack thereof, available on each platform.

Facebook, one of the more popular social outlets, has expanded its privacy settings extensively since its creation. Some of the privacy settings available to Facebook users are: the ability to hide any wall comments other than the users, which avoids the possibility of unwanted embarrassing or lewd comments; management of public "tags", video and photograph alike; the option to make one's friends list hidden, which avoids any professional liability precautions taken against an individual based on "guilty by association" judgments; and the ability to remove oneself off from search results. This last privacy option is among the most unknown and is the possibly the best practice for being proactive about one's account and still allow for platform usage.
If a user decides they want to remove themselves off of search results for Facebook, the process is as follows:

Visit the 'search privacy settings page'
Under "Search Visibility", select "Only Friends". Remember, doing so will remove one from Facebook search results; users should only finalize this process if they are certain they wished to be hidden from search results completely. Otherwise, one can select another group, such as "My Networks and Friends".
Click "Save Changes"

Some of the more common actions taken by users which are deemed disciplinary-worthy are a breach of confidentiality, breach of procedure, lewd language, reputation or character damaging photos, damaging rapport, and damage to creditability.