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Uncle Obama wants to know everything about us also. His little army of convicts and federal thugs continue to gather all the info they can on us.
Get OFF Twitter, LinkedIn & Facebook pages! They’re data-mining engines. Here’s how to to delete Facebook permanently:
http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
Good for her. Better for me - I don’t do FB at all.
The problem with this is three fold:
* Personal pages versus private pages mean that the page they look at may not be the one in the complaint.
* They may decide something based on a Facebook page of someone else.
* If the person had her pants around her ankles in public, it may not be the fault of the person who posted the picture but the person who put themselves in a compromising position. (If you don’t want pictures of yourself doing drunk stupid stuff on the web, don’t get drunk enough in public to do stupid stuff.)
“And I would not, still to this day, let them in my Facebook. And I don’t think it’s OK for an employer to ask you.’ She went on to say: ‘I have the right to privacy.”
Good for her!
Anyone demanding passwords to FB or any other private accounts should be sued.
Setting aside the issue of how stupid it is to post things on FB that you wouldn’t want certain people to see, the idea of an employer demanding to have access to a personal site is outlandish. It’s the equivalent of their requiring access to your gmail account.
That said, the media is not writing these stories well. The impression in many instances is that employers are asking for passwords. That would be ridiculous; they want to view the pages. I have yet to see one company named that has asked for login information, but that doesn’t stop the media from reporting it as an emerging phenomenon.
That’s why you create dummy accounts.
I think employers have figured out that accessing applicants’ and employees’ Facebook accounts is a back door to acquire information that is illegal to request on an application. You can’t ask a person’s age, gender, race, etc., on an official application, but most of that info is shared freely on social networks. Demanding access is stunningly illegal for this reason alone
(Most applications have a section asking for some of that info for diversity reporting, but filling it out is optional.
Why do people post stupid things?
I guess next they’ll be demanding the right to open your mail.
I agree with her that it is egregious and her employer should not have demanded to see her FB page. Having said that, her employer can decide to employ her or not, and if she had a history of posting inappropriate pics of her co-workers, they may decide they don’t want to pay her paycheck. Lesson: don’t post stuff on your FB page you don’t want people to see, especially if it’s about other people at work.
You are a fool, if:
1) You have a Facebook page under your own name, or with photos or *any* other personal information on it. (note: may be abbreviated to “You have a Facebook page.” This also applies to other social media, and *anything* to do with Google.
2) You put any other personal information on the Internet, other than minimal credit card information on secure sites. (Credit card security is now so awful that you should regularly, once a year, during a “quiet time”, request replacement cards with a new number.)
I highly recommend using the following sites:
PCTools Secure Password Generator. (Do not limit yourself to 8 character passwords, either. Go for a minimum of 21.)
http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/
Fake name and address generator.
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
10 Minute (renewable) functional email address.
http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
Adobe Flash Cookies manager. Some sneaky websites (like Google), in addition to creating cookies that can be easily deleted from within your browser, also create “flash cookies”, that retain your information when your regular cookies have been deleted, and “reload” your browser cookies. Bookmark this site, as it lists and allows you to delete these flash cookies. Note: the control panel on the site is *not* an image, but a real control panel showing data from your computer.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
She got snitched on by a parent who was also her Facebook friend. What I don’t understand is why the parent didn’t just get a screenshot of the picture, turn that in to the Principal and leave her out of it.
Showing how much/little I know about Facebook, I thought you just looked up anyone on it, and got whatever they wanted to “share”.
Guilty, guilty, guilty.