What causes some people to be paranoid about Facebook?

[★Merry Glinda★]

Saw a program, maybe Dateline or 60 minutes, about Facebook and employment. It was astonishing how many companies, when interviewing someone, will look for their Facebook page to see who it is they really are. You can tell alot about someone on their Facebook page, and their posts, and their pictures.

There was one hidden camera interview where the person interviewing asked the potential employee (in the middle of the interview) to sign onto Facebook then and there. Because he wouldn't have time to change it, or make a fake one, or to "clean it up" a bit. Apparently it is not against the law for companies to do this, but it is SUCH an invasion of privacy.

Apparently a lot of people are now creating two Facebook accounts, one for work related purposes, and one for their real lives.

I will say, as a rep for a company, if one of my clients really wanted to, they could try to find me on Facebook. Then what is to stop them from making financial decisions, or deciding they don't want to do business with my company because I posted a drunken table top dancing picture?

It's why I don't do Facebook anymore. Invasion of privacy and potential stalking. Had stalking issues before, and it's scary.