Creating a SNS profile for an internship?

Context:
You are a  part II student interested in an industrial placement.  You have avoided being drawn in to  social networking sites, preferring to spend time with your friends.  You have three companies which offer interesting opportunities for a year out, and you discover from one of your friends that two of them have been getting in touch with potential interns through Facebook.  While you were chatting with friends over coffee, you heard that there are 20 people applying for each position within the companies, so it is going to be quite competitive.

 

  1. What basic research would you do to try to determine whether you are more likely to be successful in your application if you have a Facebook profile?
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  2. If you choose to create a profile, for the purposes of enabling the companies to find you, what sort of information would you make available on it?
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  3. What do you think it says about you, if you just create the profile with your academic achievements and areas of professional interests?
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  4. If you were interacting with potential employees via a social networking site, how would you see someone who had created a profile just to interact with you, or to get your attention?
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