Social Media Community Guidelines

Comments, content, and links posted by other users on Empire State University social media content do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the university. Links to other websites should not be construed as an endorsement of the organizations, entities, views or content contained therein. SUNY Empire is not responsible for the content of those external websites.

By posting content to any SUNY Empire social media page, users understand and acknowledge that this information is available to the public, and that other participants may use posted information beyond the control of SUNY Empire. Users who do not wish to have information they have made available via these sites used, published, copied and/or reprinted, should not post on SUNY Empire's social media pages.

SUNY Empire expects anyone who submits content or engages in discussion on SUNY Empire online sites/pages to:

• Be courteous and respectful
• Refrain from threatening, defaming or verbally abusing others
• Be on-topic
• Debate, but don’t attack

SUNY Empire may review content posted by other users to its official social media pages. Comments and dialogue about SUNY Empire social media content are welcome and encouraged. However, the university may hide or remove content that includes advertisements, profanity, constitutes a true threat or unlawful harassment, or is unrelated to the SUNY Empire content to which it is posted as a response.

Please refer to the SUNY Empire social media policy for usage guidelines. 

The Office of Communications is available as a resource. For general questions about or assistance with social media, please contact us at SUNYEmpireNews@sunyempire.edu.

External Resources

Facebook Community Standards

Instagram Community Guidelines

LinkedIn Professional Community Policies

Twitter Rules ("X")