Comments on: Share Your Facebook, Twitter Passwords With Your Employer?

By: fred

fred — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:10:30 +0000

It will be interesting to see if this ever gets litigated as a privacy issue. I agree that one’s facebook page can lend great insight, but there are those who believe that if the page is locked to just friends, then it is considered private. Personally, I think if you put something on a public page for the world to see, it’s no longer private. Now, ask me to log in to show you my private info? Interesting dilemma…
I wonder how many people have constructed “clean” facebook pages for employers to see.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:01:09 +0000

Amen Mark T.

@Netbus “It all boils down to what you are willing to do to get or keep a job”, sounds like what unscrupulous bosses would tell struggling single mothers.

The beauty of being retired is the fact that I HOLD THE GUN NOW. You ask me for my face book account or a urine sample and you are going to have a bad day.

By: Mark T.

Mark T. — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:22:34 +0000

Absolutely Unconstitutional , Period!!! But U.S. citizens just lay down and take it.. Someone once said if you give up your freedom for security you deserve neither !

By: Netbus

Netbus — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:14:49 +0000

Today common practice for recruiters to do is facebook the applicant. If there are pics of gang signs or pics of the applicant past out drunk in their front yard with beer cans around the body, the company will pass on the interview. People forget that they are an extension of the company they work for. I was told my a recruiter that there is a saying they live by “The larger the gauge, the lower the wage”, talking about the ear holes in young people’s ears. I have heard that in a second interview the employer will ask the interviewee to log into their facebook account in front of the interviewer. This is because the applicant has the account locked and was not vieweable before the interview took place. It all comes down to what are you willing to do to get or keep a job.

By: deBugger

deBugger — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:05:34 +0000

Good Idea.

Business is business, but your privacy, passwords, and personal internet activities SHOULD BE no one’s business but your own & those you willingly invite to share them.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:56:52 +0000

I would think if they are a productive company they would have too much to do to waste time on this.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:04:00 +0000

I would worry more about what employees were stealing from my business as opposed to running rough shod over their private lives.

They can be making sacrifices to moloch for all I care as long as they are punctual, courteous, groomed and productive.