Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords. WILL YOU?

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Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords
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SEATTLE — When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.

Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to search for his Facebook page. But she couldn't see his private profile. She turned back and asked him to hand over his login information.

Bassett refused and withdrew his application, saying he didn't want to work for a company that would seek such personal information. But as the job market steadily improves, other job candidates are confronting the same question from prospective employers, and some of them cannot afford to say no.

In their efforts to vet applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person's social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around.

"It's akin to requiring someone's house keys," said Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor and former federal prosecutor who calls it "an egregious privacy violation."

Questions have been raised about the legality of the practice, which is also the focus of proposed legislation in Illinois and Maryland that would forbid public agencies from asking for access to social networks.

Since the rise of social networking, it has become common for managers to review publically available Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and other sites to learn more about job candidates. But many users, especially on Facebook, have their profiles set to private, making them available only to selected people or certain networks.

There's more believe it! People turnig down gigs employment,but as we Americans always do,we find a way around it! We will delete facebook piece by piece manually & we will suffice & be strong,we will make it! Unit we STAND AND DIVIDED WE FALL BUT IF OUR BACKS should ever be against the wall; we'll be together you & I!
BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! DON'T LET THE LIBS/LEFT & SOCIALIST EVER TELL US WE MUST DO ANYTHING! FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE TOO THE PEOPLE! TO HELL W/ALL WHO DISAGREES & DON'T WORRY ABOUT LABELS HIPPOCRATES PUT ON YOU,STAND UP & BE A REAL AMERICA & DON'T TAKE IT IS FORBIDDING FOR AN ANSWER! COPY and SEND! NOW!
I personally told you all so & I don't have face book and never will..why do u all think they started face book in the 1st place? YES AND to freely support it w/thier crappy ads!

[Zanica]

cuckoo! like facebook is ever going down hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

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[Auntie Mame]

Just create a dummy email and facebook accounts. Reply to a few advertisers on the email account to generate some activity and addresses. Do the same for facebook. Just make up all sorts or good deeds you've done and proudly brag about them. Keep the privacy options at max so nobody see these and post that they are not true, do not request nor accept any friend request (except from others doing the same scheme). I've done this for years, I don't know why others didn't think of this simple solution.

Did you know that I was 3rd on my collage class, spent 2 years helping Mother Teresa in India, I worked a year with Jane Goodall, I produced a minor play on Broadway in 1973 (good reviews from critics but due to a fire we had to shut down in the first week)..... Get the idea?