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GS: What do you think about this new "trend" of job seekers who are being asked for their? - Samantha - 10-13-2012 11:54 AM
Facebook, Twitter, and other online accounts (YA?!) user name and password, so the company can see how their prospective employee portrays themselves to others?
Does a company's concern for hiring someone who may make disparaging remarks about their employer outweigh freedom of speech?
BQ: If you were desperate for a job, would you hand over your log-ins if that meant the difference between being hired or not?
http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-20/business/31215793_1_social-networking-password-facebook
- Gentlemenbasketball277 - 10-13-2012 12:02 PM
Wow... o_O
- InvisibleMan - 10-13-2012 12:02 PM
No one is entitled to my mostly private information but me and whoever I decide to share it with.
I'd work somewhere else. If I couldn't, I'd make new accounts.
- â¤Cinnamon⤠- 10-13-2012 12:02 PM
If they wanna look me up online fine! But to ask for passwords, heck no!
- tallunderwear789 - 10-13-2012 12:02 PM
I'm throwing away my computer and locking myself in the shed for eternity.
- Lisa B - 10-13-2012 12:02 PM
I'd say yes, as long as I could also have theirs so I could decide if they were the kind of people I wanted to work for.
@ Common Sense: You can make your Facebook profile so private that only your friends can see you. If someone tries to look you up you don't show up in any searches. That's how I have mine set.
- Jeffrey - 10-13-2012 12:02 PM
That is exactly the reason I refuse to make a Facefuc* or Titter account. Bytches be spying...thoes that have these things are just making it easier for your govt and foreign govts to aquire sensitive info.
- LifeQuest - 10-13-2012 12:02 PM
Invasion of privacy. Look into it.
- Common Sense - 10-13-2012 12:02 PM
They don't need your log in information to see what you've been posting. (I have a hard time believing many perspective companies really ask for log in information)
It's not just employers. Many colleges check facebook accounts.
Me - I don't do facebook, in part because of the public nature of it and I would not give a potential employer the password to my personal email.
(Thanks for the note Lisa B)
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- The Lorax - 10-13-2012 12:02 PM
Employers have freedom to hire who they deem fit. People still have freedom of speech but that doesn't mean you don't have to be responsible wit hwhat you do.
With that asking for any password is unacceptable and should not be tolerated.
BQ: I would give access to my pages (if I had them) but not any login info. I don't have a Facebook/twitter or anything like that account. The people I want to know what I am thinking know it from me. People wanting everyone to know every aspect of their lives are destined to pay for it somewhere down the line.