Why are jobs allowed to judge our facebooks, when they have no proof if we really posted everything?

[Sim girl]

Let's say someone who hates your posts a fake profile of you and makes you look like a complete moron without you knowing? Then an employer sees the profile and decides not to hire you?

It's happened to my sister before where someone used her profile photo and pretended to be her. It wasn't anything about hate though. It was just a random stranger being a moron. But it did happen!

So why does the law even allow this?

[Pixel P]

because you can't really outlaw facebook, or practical jokes gone bad.

[Cybi]

How would you propose a block where employers can’t search out FB profiles? It is impossible. They can search out the profiles on their own time and think of an excuse to not hire an individual due to material on the profile. There is no physical way to enforce your proposed law.

[Sviþjóð]

Number One: Potential employers aren't fair. They are not on your side so they will use imperfection found while researching you to rule a candidate out.

Number Two: Potential employers would usually have to do a search via name or even social security number, not photo. Also, since in the US and Canada, photos are not required to be placed on resumes and applications for reasons having to do with profiling and discrimination, how would they ever know what the candidate looked like?

In this case, I think your worries shouldn't be so great. If the advisary were more ambitious however, then you might have a problem.

Good luck.

[cuzziman84]

The internet is an open forum of information and communication. This is why I don't have myspace or facebook.