"They Loved Your GPA, Then They Saw Your Tweets" by Natasha Singer. New York Times.
The main point of this article is to convey the point that what you say or do on the Internet follows you throughout your life. Whether it be when you're thirteen or when you're twenty-four, your actions leave something like a digital footprint that colleges can track. Not only can colleges track your digital footprints, but your friends and family can too. A quote that surprised me would be: "Students' social media and digital footprint can sometimes play a role in the admissions process" because I thought they only checked what you posted recently, not past posts and I would have never thought it would affect you getting into college. A quote that confused me was: "Perhaps she hadn't realized that colleges keep tack of their social media mentions" because wouldn't she have talked to her parents and would have known they would be looking at them? Why did she post things she knew were wrong in the first place? ...
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