Employers want Facebook Access

[Xidelt]

What if you give your password to said employer, they log in to your account and post some horrible stuff? Are you responsible for what is on your profile?

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

I would never hand over my Facebook password to a potential employer.

I can understand an employer wanting to see my FB public profile. I can also understand an employer wanting to see what I share with my professional contacts (i.e. precious little). But if you're dumb enough to post compromising pictures and make them widely available - e.g. if every picture on your public profile shows you falling-down drunk or smoking a blunt - an employer should think twice about hiring you. So I have no problem with someone checking me out on FB, but the moment an interviewer asks for my password, I will walk out of the room.

This.

[AUAZD2001]

Originally Posted by Xidelt

What if you give your password to said employer, they log in to your account and post some horrible stuff? Are you responsible for what is on your profile?

When I heard this on the news today that's exactly what I thought. If they have your password then they can act as you and say things that you would be responsible for.

Also, they could see your private messages and those private messages someone else sent to you. Not only is the potential employer violating your privacy but also the privacy of all the other individuals who have ever sent you confidential messages.

[BraveMaroon]

Tell you what. I'll give you my Facebook password, just as soon as you turn over a list of what everyone on staff here makes in salary. By name and title.

No? I thought you were all about transparency...

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

Tell you what. I'll give you my Facebook password, just as soon as you turn over a list of what everyone on staff here makes in salary. By name and title.

No? I thought you were all about transparency...

Love this!

[AGDLynn]

Love this, too!

This would work except for state agencies who have that information on public websites already..probably most people in that agency don't know it.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by AGDLynn

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world...s-1391452.html

Be prepared to give them your password or make them a friend!

Link didn't work but I was going to post this from the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BUAG1NNHQ2.DTL

[AGDLynn]

Same article - different paper.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by AGDLynn

Same article - different paper.

Thanks

[navane]

Last fall, I was a candidate for a law enforcement job. During the orientation meeting, the background investigator outright told us that, if we make it to the background interviews, do not be surprised if there's a laptop on the table - they're going to ask us to log into our Facebook account. He said either that or we would be contacted and asked to temporarily set our profiles to public for the investigator to review. He said they would be looking for any evidence of inappropriate behavior (smoking pot, etc) and to see what kind of people we have on our friends list. They told us, "If there's something you don't want us to see, delete it now. You've been given fair warning."

.....Kelly

[33girl]

Originally Posted by navane

Last fall, I was a candidate for a law enforcement job. During the orientation meeting, the background investigator outright told us that, if we make it to the background interviews, do not be surprised if there's a laptop on the table - they're going to ask us to log into our Facebook account. He said either that or we would be contacted and asked to temporarily set our profiles to public for the investigator to review. He said they would be looking for any evidence of inappropriate behavior (smoking pot, etc) and to see what kind of people we have on our friends list. They told us, "If there's something you don't want us to see, delete it now. You've been given fair warning."

.....Kelly

See, to me, this can foster laziness. "Oh well, he didn't have anything on his Facebook so he must be OK." What they don't know is he drops acid on a nightly basis but is smart enough to not have a camera anywhere nearby.

And as far as the "what kind of people we have on our friends list" - that just sounds like code for racism/religious intolerance etc.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by Xidelt

What if you give your password to said employer, they log in to your account and post some horrible stuff? Are you responsible for what is on your profile?

A very valid point as well. Or what if they change the password on you and you can't get back in, and now they are misrepresenting themselves as you.

I could totally see someone doing that (upon conclusion of the interview, and the applicant has left) to creep on people. Sick, I tell you!!