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More than half of U.S. law schools look at social media presence of applicants…

which sometimes leads to rejection.  I suspect both hiring departments and admissions committees in philosophy will start doing this more systematically in the years ahead–yet another reason why students, and especially graduate students seeking jobs, should have either no Internet presence or a wholly professional one (i.e., no ranting about politics, abusive tirades about faculty or fellow students, narcissistic displays [e.g., going on about one's mental health, one's sex life, one's private affairs] etc.).

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