School looking at parent’s LinkedIn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, but now I’m nervous about all the times I skulked around Linked In checking out ex-boyfriends, their spouses, etc.

They know.

This is legit the worst thing I’ve ever read on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BS

It always amazes me how some people here are completely confident that they know everything about a topic based on their tiny experience.

Somebody posts something a little unusual & before there is even a little bit of discussion, people feel compelled to post “BS” & “Troll!”

[Anonymous]

They only know if you have signed in, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They only know if you have signed in, right?

Right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, but now I’m nervous about all the times I skulked around Linked In checking out ex-boyfriends, their spouses, etc.

They know.

This is legit the worst thing I’ve ever read on DCUM.

How could you not know this??

[Anonymous]

How do those of you who use linked not know people can see you looked?

You can pay to be invisible.

[Anonymous]

Did you fill out FASFA/CSS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you fill out FASFA/CSS?

*Fafsa

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS

It always amazes me how some people here are completely confident that they know everything about a topic based on their tiny experience.

Somebody posts something a little unusual & before there is even a little bit of discussion, people feel compelled to post “BS” & “Troll!”

I try to ask “how could this be true?” and “how would this fit in (or not) with what I NOW believe to be true” rather than dismissing anything new as BS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS

+1. "The School"? What, like he got a message saying "Harvard University has viewed your mom's profile"?

I get regular notifications about who has looked at my profile. It doesn’t seem odd to me.

You do? How? So if I look at someone's profile, they can see that? Even if I don't have a LinkedIn profile myself?
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS

+1. "The School"? What, like he got a message saying "Harvard University has viewed your mom's profile"?

I get regular notifications about who has looked at my profile. It doesn’t seem odd to me.

You do? How? So if I look at someone's profile, they can see that? Even if I don't have a LinkedIn profile myself?
DP

No, not if you just Google it but if you are signed into linked in and you don’t pay for premium or something they can see. I don’t know if it always says the name or just their organization. It may depend on whether they pay for premium. But, yeah. Don’t cyberstalking ex boyfriends while signed into LinkedIn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH saw that the school our DC applied to ED was looking at his LinkedIn page. Is this a thing?

We have not applied for FA and DH has a good but totally normal job, nothing noteworthy of of unusual status.

I’ve heard of schools looking at kids’ social media (our DC is actually not on social media by choice) but parents?

I've seen people complain about this on this board in prior years, so yes. It's a thing.

What surprises me, though, is the timing. Was the ED deadline not just yesterday? Why would they be even looking at applications so early? Crazy.

[Anonymous]

OP-- would your last name suggest that you might be URM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BS

+1. "The School"? What, like he got a message saying "Harvard University has viewed your mom's profile"?

I get regular notifications about who has looked at my profile. It doesn’t seem odd to me.

You do? How? So if I look at someone's profile, they can see that? Even if I don't have a LinkedIn profile myself?
DP

Only if you have linked in! Obviously if you don’t have an account, they won’t know you’re sleuthing. But you also can’t access their full profile if you don’t have an account

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH saw that the school our DC applied to ED was looking at his LinkedIn page. Is this a thing?

We have not applied for FA and DH has a good but totally normal job, nothing noteworthy of of unusual status.

I’ve heard of schools looking at kids’ social media (our DC is actually not on social media by choice) but parents?

I've seen people complain about this on this board in prior years, so yes. It's a thing.

What surprises me, though, is the timing. Was the ED deadline not just yesterday? Why would they be even looking at applications so early? Crazy.

I’m the OP, DC submitted a little early so I don’t know, maybe they start looking at what they have? Not an URM and I don’t think name would suggest that - that did occur to me, looking at family social media accounts might be a way for them to know now that they can’t ask. But it sounds like this is sometimes a thing for whatever reason based on what others have said.