How can jobs look at your social media with privacy settings?

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Employers have no special privileges when it comes to social media profiles - if you've set your privacy settings in a way that does not allow anyone outside of your friends list to view your profile, employers can't see it (unless someone working for the company is in your friends lists).

Things they can see regardless of your privacy settings include things like your profile picture, pages that you're a member of and pages that you own (if they went on the page your name could be visible).

It is becoming more popular for employers to check the social media accounts of potential employees on sites like Twitter and Facebook, but with the right settings you can avoid this.

There are even sites (e.g. 7daypic.com) that allow you to share photos that they will automatically delete after 7 days - so it's unlikely your employer would find it.