Is an employer asking the applicant for user names & passwords of fb & twitter an invasion of privacy?

[flipflopchick]

Can an employer legally ask the applicant to provide the user names and passwords to all of there social networking sites such as facebook and twitter? Or is this a invasion of privacy?

[Ouragon]

Employers can ask for anything they want. You can say, "I don't use those for work purposes," and refuse to give the info.

[Mutt]

Asking you is not an invasion of privacy. If they put a keyboard grabber on your home computer and get your user name and password, that would be an invasion of privacy.