Apparently now, colleges nationawide are now looking at applicants' social-networking profiles, such as Facebook and Myspace, to determine their qualifications for acceptance.  How wack is that! 

500 top colleges were surveyed by a education company, Kaplan, and it was found that 10% of admissions officers used social-networking sites to evaluate their applicants.  Of those colleges, 38% said that what they saw on their applicants' profile pages, "negatively affected" their views of the applicant. Only a quarter of the schools looking at these sites said their views were improved, according to the survey.  So yes, you can tell a lot about a person by what is on their Facebook profile.

There are ways to avoid the chance of employees or now, college admission offices, to stalk you.  My advice is to not put a picture of you passed out as your profile pic, or one of you holding double-fisting beer, or making out with strangers....you get the point.  You should also be careful at what you put in your interests.  You can also make your profile private so that only you friends would be able to see it.  Facebook as well as other social-networking sites are dangerous territories.  You never know who is looking at it...so the best thing you should do is not have one or limit how much you share on there.