Would you employer check your social media background before hire people?

i still never encounter an employer that will check your social media background and aside from that its not connected to my work description so why they need to check it and aside from that social media background is my private things that no one shall interfere.

These days many employers check candidates Face Book page and other social networking sites to see what they are like. I think photos of partying and drinking would not be great for an employer to see. Of course if the person is old enough there is nothing wrong with those two activities. I even heard universities are looking for the same sort of thing to see what the student applicants are like.

I think it was great for an employer to be able to check on the way people are by looking at their Facebook profiles. Alot of these young people use very foul language and are up to no good. Not all of them but alot of them are no good for hiring.

Unfortunately, employers do check social media sites before hiring you. I think t is terrible because that is aninvasion of privacy. I feel that what people do on their on time is personal and private. A boss has no right to know what you do whn you are off the clock. Employees do not spy on their employers so why should employees be spied on.

I am aware that Employers do check professional background however did not hear anything about social media background check. May be they have started this very recently or I am not aware if it has been in place from long back. We should take care while commenting or putting images on social media, it can be tracked and may turn dangerous for us. Thanks for sharing.

Exactly. I prefer not to join in any social sites hahaha. Just to be safe in applying for work.

I don't think that drinking and partying counts as misbehaving, as long as you are legally old enough to do so.

These days many employers do check peoples' views on social networking sites before they hire them. They also check what their employees are doing and saying on the social networking sites as well. There was this case of this lady who lost her job because she wrote some unflattering remarks about her work. Law enforcement officials also use the social networking sites to track down people especially criminals. Just yesterday I saw on TV this teenager was arrested for receiving a stolen laptop because when he went online with it, the laptop broadcast his location to the owner and when he logged on to facebook, the owner was able to see his profile page and he could see his name, his parents name, where he went to school, etc, etc. Then he alerted the police and the teenager was arrested. The owner had installed so security software on his laptop for that kind of eventuality. So using the right tools, it seems it is possible to have a look at what people are doing on the social network sites.