This is advice from a list of ‘30 reasons girls should call it a night’, a popular Facebook group with 1,80,000 members. Here, surfers can find 5,000 photos of girls in states of drunken debauchery: vomiting, inadvertently flashing their underwear, passed out in a bush, or answering a call of nature in the open.

It appears that drunken antics are no longer a source of acute embarrassment for girls; in fact boasting to the world on social networking sites is a way to gain social standing among peers.

So commonplace are drunken girls that the Oxford English Dictionary found it necessary in 2001 to include the newly-coined noun “ladette”, which describes a “boisterous, heavy-drinking young woman; a woman with a lifestyle that is more characteristic of that of some young men, usually involving heavy drinking and boisterous behaviour.”

Many photos on the site are accompanied by full names and the colleges they attend, showing a blatant disregard for the fact that potential employers could be viewing their drunken exploits.

A study by the networking firm Viadeo recently found that one in five employers now uses social networking Web sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, to research information on job candidates and to view how they project themselves.