Big Brother is alive and well

I´m wondering what a prospective employer could hope to find, if they looked at my facebook account from the ínside´ that they would not see from the ´outside´. Although this story sounds like out and out crap, it wouldn´t surprise me at all if it were true. There are employers out there who think they own their employees and behave accordingly.

with the stiff competition in jobs, the employers think that they can do extra push against the applicants' will to offer the jobs that are so scarce nowadays. the applicants are in dire need of jobs so they may be forced to do things that are against their will. this kind of stories of providing personal data such as password to social networking sites has no place in employer-employee relations. this must be eliminated.

It's never happened to me or anyone I know. If an employer or prospective employer asked for such information I would try to politely say "No." Unfortunately I might find it difficult to keep various four letter words out of my refusal.

I have heard of people dismissed because of their social networking behaviour but I do wonder exactly where an employer is given the right to see all that there is about me. Do I give permission for them to read my mail, view my bank statements or comment on my diet? I am not opposed to an employer providing me with assistance to fix my home life if it ensures a continuity of standard in my work environment thus benefiting us both. But I object like heck to snooping and this is what the password surrendering sounds like.

I've never been asked for this sort of information, and if I was I'd walk out. What I do on my own time is my business. This is a huge invasion of privacy. I can understand companies and certain government agencies looking into obvious sites to see if an applicant is there and maybe looking to see what they're saying and doing. The only way to really keep something to yourself nowadays is just not to say anything to anyone.

Maybe they're looking for history of your records in school and previous jobs, jobs are getting harder to get these days aren't they?

Where is the ACLU this is what they live for freedom of speech. They are not on it because it probably effects very few and as had been said what can they learn about you that they can not find out on their own.

I have never heard of employers asking for passwords but I do know that employers, and colleges will check your social networks from the outside. This is to gauge the type of person they are hiring. Everybody is nice in an interview... I told my daughter this years ago. Now she is 18, has nothing online to be ashamed of and thanks me for this. Just be careful people. Nothing on the internet is sacred and nothing is ever truly deleted.

No, and I'd never do that. They can ask me for my ID on social networking sites but my name is quite common. It'd take them a while, and what'd they find anyway? Not much really. I really don't bother with that sort of stuff any more anyway. According to one person (barely a friend now), I don't have a 'real job' anyway.

NOPE...NO-WAY..NEIN---The KEY to my "skeleton closet"...NOT for the want or lure of any job. Altho, I don't think I have done or said anything on a social site (this being it)that would/could compromise my world...I'm NOT sure I have the confidence, that what I deemed correct would NOT be gnarled and twisted! I concur there could be at glimpse at my personal behaviour and could be reflective of my work ethics, the world has revolved, people have been employed and unemployed forever, without this data! TOO MUCH, Big Brother, for me!

The only person in the world that knows my log in information is my very trusted daughter. Nobody else will ever get that kind of information out of me. If a potentual employer asked i think i would deny having anything to do with face book. Log in information should be kept private. Its none their business.

I think it's nuts. I haven't heard of this particular request from potential employers but I do know they search your name sometimes and try to see what kind of things you put on your social networking sites. There have also been people that have lost their jobs for certain public postings on their social sites the company they worked for thought misrepresented the company. There is no privacy on the internet and these companies go the extra mile to prove that.

I haven't heard of this actually happening anywhere. If it happened to me, I would immediately end the interview and tell the interviewer that I don't care to work for or be associated with a company that has such little regard for people's privacy. I don't care how badly I needed a job, I wouldn't submit to such a contemptible request. I also think that if it was true, the company or companies that were doing it would be immediately vilified in the news. Anyone that was subject to the demand would publicize it and I would think that it would place the company in a very bad light. I wouldn't think they would be able to keep up this practice for very long.

That violates the number one thing that you should know when on the Internet. You never, ever, ever, give anyone your log in details to anything. That is just something that should not be done at all. I wrote about this elsewhere, but I'll say that social networking offers an unfortunate backdoor into our private lives and people tend to not have enough sense to realize that if it is on the Internet, then it is really not private to begin with. No matter if they set their profile to "private". Then again, some people are gripped by the throat because of this. If they won't agree, then there are many other people who are out there, who would like their job and would happily give away their log in details. I still think that if companies ask for your social security number as well, that is a security and identity theft nightmare waiting to happen. We're just a few steps away from companies requiring their employees to install security cameras in their homes. Of course, if I was an employer, would you trust someone with secure details of the company not to sell out to you when they so easily hand over the log in to their social networking profiles? Just something to think about.

I heard something about this the other day. I would tell them to go stuff it. But the simple truth is thanks to websites like mylife they can find out about you without you even having ever applied to that website. We live in the technology age and some people are exploiting it for maximum gain. While the government worries (supposedly) about pirated software, individuals personal information is being stolen and their life savings being cleaned out at a quicker rate than ever.