Cambridge proffessor checks applicants on Facebook

Uh oh.

Camebridge University professor, Dr Richard Barnes, let slip in the college magazine that he (discreetly) checks up on applicants’ Facebook profiles. Silly, silly man.

Mr Barnes said that 2007 saw him join the “social” networking site to “see what he was missing” and, like we said before, to (discreetly) check up on applicants. This is a little trick he’s picked up from “some of our members in the city”.

Of course Cambridge fobbed it off as just a throw away remark and insisted that applicants are assessed based on their interviews, exam results and written submissions only.

Oxford Academics told the Guardian they felt the practice was “intrusive” and “most unreasonable”.

Well said, old boy.

Read more at the guardian.co.uk