Does my old work place has the rights to go into my personal Facebook without my permission?

[lilmizzrandom]

I recently left my job, and it is at a marketing place and i was in charge of social media, so I had to be on my facebook to work and check up on our clients.

I told MY fb friends through facebook message, why i left.

Now the employee and owner of my old work place are threatening to sue me for telling my friends why i left. But there is NO way they could have read my conversation on my facebook messages that i sent to my friends if they were not on my account. Also ever since I left, I have been getting lots of notices from my email and other accounts I had to use at work, about a third party trying to log on into my accounts from another computer.
i feel like the people at my old work place took the login info of my accounts i had to use at work without my permission, and are going through it after i left.

[Sandy]

Block everyone from work!

[J]

I'm not sure. Consult a lawyer.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...817AAgCoCR

[me2]

You said, "I was in charge of social media, so I had to be on my facebook to work".  If this account was created as a job requirement, it is not "personal" in the legal sense, and could reasonably be claimed as a company asset.

If you created the account prior to being assigned a job that required a Facebook presence, or especially before being hired, the account was exclusively yours, and most likely still is (but see below).  Change the password and "lost password" recovery information, including any site contact email addresses and similar settings.

You should of course do the same for all such sites, email accounts, etc. — assume that your previous employer has access to accounts about which they previously had no knowledge.

You should understand that using resources such personal social media for company business is quite poor judgement.  Nor should you provide any employer with passwords or any kind of administrative access to sites that are not created and used specifically for work.  Several states have made it illegal for employers to even ask for personal Facebook account passwords and similar information.

Regarding "owner of my old work place are threatening to sue me for telling my friends why i left", unless you signed a non-disclosure agreement in which this scenario was addressed and proscribed, there is no case — unless it can be proved that the site on which you posted can be considered a company property or asset.  That the site was made available for company use may change its legal status, but it would need to be shown that you permitted the site to become essential to the operation of the business, and I doubt such a proof would be feasible.

In any case, it is essential to regain sole and complete control of all your social media, email, and other accounts, in order to reassert your rights.