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My personal view on this whole thing: why would someone interviewing you for a job ask for your facebook password? I am sorry but that's just rude. Work and your own personal life should stay separate. As long you show up on time, do your job properly and leave, I don't see why I need to tell potential employers I do with my personal life. Thoughts?

((and yes, the title of this topic was from the actual article...I was too lazy to think of some clever name...))

Edited March 21, 201213 yr by Spiney

i agree that it is an invasion of privacy, but at the same time i have nothing to hide and i would tell them, just that.

Crap, I don't even know what's on my Facebook profile anymore I should probably fix it up before I start applying for a summer job.

 

I've heard of this happening before. I don't agree with handing out the username and password. No one should ever give that information out. But a good side to this is that it gives you a chance to show off who you are and you can make it a selling point for yourself. I would be willing to share my twitter account because it shows how much I do with translating Japanese.

Lol, this is nonsense and completely unnecessary. I probably won't apply for a job that asks my facebook password.

Glad I don't have a Facebook account. http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/happy.png

facebook password? i have nothing on my facebook so there would be no point in asking me for my password

If someone needs any password that protects sensitive information than you generally shouldn't trust them and probably wouldn't want to affiliate yourself with such a group.

I'm mostly with my Roleplay account, so I don't have nothing much to worry about, since I barely am active with my real account.

tutti frutti. To me, that's just an invasion of privacy. Why do employers need to know what people do outside of their job? They shouldn't need to know what people do with their personal life, much less what they do on a social network. In my opinion, Facebook is a method for people to keep in contact with people in their lives on top of meeting new people. Utlimately, I think that it's going to far in asking for that type of information.

America has an ever-growing, and astonishing, lack of privacy problem. The liberty clause seems to mean absolutely nothing these days. And it is a lot more than than just corporations asking for our Facebook passwords, or those new "smart meters," or even the Patriot Act. American's are basically giving their permission to be treated this way, and we been since 9/11. It stems from the way of thinking, "I've got nothing to hide."

 

It use to be that it didn't matter if you had something to hide or not, it had to be proven that you were guilty of some crime and no longer deserved the protection of privacy. Now if you don't immediately share everything, then you are guilty of something.

 

Bet you anything, anyone who refuses to give corporations asking this their Facebook password's won't get the job. And who can afford not to fork it over in this economy? We all need the job.

 

I use Facebook as an empty profile, basically.

 

In any case, it's not like any of your Facebook information was private in the first place. Do you know how many third parties have all that information? Or did you know that google saves all of your google searches and browser history and sells those to third parties as well? Privacy is dead.

Umm no thats just dumb

Invasion of privacy. The government (jobs are watched by the government) has no right in that. It's in the freaking Bill of Rights. Nowadays people do post the most ridiculous things on Facebook, which is why I can see they would ask such personal information. I'm not necessarily talking about me personally, but what about the others?

 

I don't have anything shameful to hide on my profile. Most of the time I'm on a Kingdom Hearts group set up on Facebook.

I think this is almost a good idea. If you have nothing to hide from your potential employer, then why wouldn't you let them in? Obviously there would be restrictions like them not being able to change anything and not reading a PM with your Mom or something, but letting them in probably isn't so terrible??

I think this is almost a good idea. If you have nothing to hide from your potential employer, then why wouldn't you let them in? Obviously there would be restrictions like them not being able to change anything and not reading a PM with your Mom or something, but letting them in probably isn't so terrible??

 

it's still a huge invasion of privacy though, even if you don't have anything to hide, not to mention goes against Facebook's own privacy policies.

it's still a huge invasion of privacy though, even if you don't have anything to hide, not to mention goes against Facebook's own privacy policies.

 

That's true. I guess I was looking at it from a more logical perspective though, rather than on a personal level.