College social networks - Three tips you should consider before joining college social networks

The web is getting filled nowadays with more and more social networks. Everybody’s part of a social network, everybody joins a certain web social network just to connect with old college friends, relatives, or even to meet new persons and start a business or friendly relationship.

What happens when we want to join a college social network and connect with former classmates?

Well, there are many options out there. However, the chances for you to meet a former classmate on a site who claims to be a college social network are slim to null if that particular social network is a scam.

There are such things as scam social networks, you know. Many of these have a default template (a design with broken links, for example) and many of its members are not real people. They are actually fake accounts made by that site’s owners just so they could claim that "our college social networks have 10,000 members", when actually 9,900 of them are fake accounts.

This is how college social networks start up, if you want to know: the owner creates fake accounts just so he / she could test the site’s functionalities. If the social network doesn’t get as many members per month, for example, as the owner would want to have, the owner starts creating fake accounts on its site.

He or she, in this case, are artificially inflating the number of members that particular college social network has.

That doesn’t mean anything to us, Internet users, because it does not affect us.

However, if I plan to join such an artificial college social network, it could turn out to be a scam site — a site that takes my e-mail address just so it could sell it to marketers and send spam to my mailbox or, worse, just so it could find out real-life information.

Three tips on college social networks

So here are some advices you should consider before joining college social networks because some of them are filled with weirdos looking for their prey, as they say in the books:

I. Pick a college social network that is serious. Before joining it, go to Google, for example, and google the name of that particular college social network.

For example, if the name of the social network is "The Yankees College Social Networks", go to Google and search for more information about The Yankees College Social Networks. Sometimes, you’d be surprised to find sites that provide articles about real people getting scammed and spammed by weird college social networks.

It’s always safe to check twice.

II. Pick a college social network that is popular. Just because you’ve received an e-mail from a so-called "friend" you’ve met on the Internet, recommending you to join a particular college social network, it doesn’t mean that he or she actually knows what they’re talking about.

Follow step one (google the name of that college social network) and check things out for yourself, before joining that "recommended" network.

III. Pick a college social network that is from a trusted institution. If you graduated from Americastudent College, for example, join their college social network — because you’ve studied there and you know that their intentions are good.

If one of your real life friends has graduated from Canadianstudent College, and you know you can trust your friend, join that particular college student network.

Remember: if in doubt, always double-check for more info about a college social network using a search engine.

You wouldn’t want to join a social network that’s unsafe an screaming with all sort of weirdos, would you?

In our following articles, we’ll provide a list a trusted college social networks for you to consider, so stay close.

You shouldn’t take our considerations for granted. Always double-check and make sure that a social network someone recommends to you also fits your needs.

Play it safe (the way the Internet should be) and you’ll be alright

Published on July 8, 2008.

This article has been included in the 10 tips Metsocial Category.

This article has been included in the 10 tips Metsocial Category.

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