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Should Employers Be Allowed to Ask for Your Facebook Login?
The Atlantic ^
| 2/21/2011
| Staff
Posted on 02/21/2011 3:50:37 PM PST by FromLori
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I am not a Facebook user but this is something people might want to think about, especially if they have teens who might put something on that could affect their future employment.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:50:40 PM PST
by
FromLori
To: FromLori
Just create a “work” facebook account that is clean and squeeky.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:52:50 PM PST
by
GraceG
To: FromLori
“the organization requires that new applicants and those applying for recertifications give the government “their social media account usernames and personal passwords for use in employee background checks.” “
This sounds way over the top. I would not even consider such a request.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:53:24 PM PST
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: FromLori
Yes, they should be allowed to ask.
And I should be allowed to respond with, “What is this thing that you call facebook?”
To: FromLori
Seems like if you MUST have a facebook acct, have two: one that you associate with your real name and have innocuous drivel in, and another under a fake name to do your real interaction with friends with.
Best would be to stay away from facebook.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:54:51 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
To: FromLori
ACLU gets one right. They should have no more right to do this than go through your house, mail, and banking accounts.
This stuff needs to be illegal bigtime.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:57:51 PM PST
by
Tolsti2
To: FromLori
The ACLU calls this policy "a frightening and illegal invasion of privacy"
The ACLU finally gets one right.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:58:06 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: PapaBear3625
Best would be to stay away from facebook and Twitter and My Space and all the other trash sites.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:59:17 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: FromLori
If anyone coughs up their password is an idiot.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:59:29 PM PST
by
svcw
(God in His own time not ours)
To: DonaldC
I agree and I don’t even use Facebook lol.
But the reason I posted it is you know teens may put something on and not phrase it properly so it could be taken out of context or if someone has a personal problem say for example with your political belief’s that could be a real problem. I thought parents might want to be forewarned that this could happen.
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posted on
02/21/2011 4:00:15 PM PST
by
FromLori
(FromLori">)
To: FromLori
I’ll give them a face book password. It may be painful but it is what it is.
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posted on
02/21/2011 4:02:27 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: SandRat
I’m not on facebook. FR handles all my online needs.
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posted on
02/21/2011 4:03:38 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
To: Repeal The 17th
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posted on
02/21/2011 4:06:14 PM PST
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: eyedigress
“Ill give them a face book password. It may be painful but it is what it is.”
From the movie: The Hangover:
Doctor: “Ya, I know where that place is, it's on the corner of: Get A Map and Go F-— Yourself...”
A password sorta like that?
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posted on
02/21/2011 4:08:40 PM PST
by
Leo Farnsworth
(I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
To: FromLori
Department of Corrections.
If you want the job then you put up with the clearance. An awful lot of bangers and hangers-on tell their stories on FB through their list of friends and posted pictures. These are not the people you want working the yard. I say good looking out by the Dept of Corrections.
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posted on
02/21/2011 4:09:24 PM PST
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get down that hill?")
To: FromLori
I'd not hire anyone who admitted to having a Face Book account to begin with.
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posted on
02/21/2011 4:10:22 PM PST
by
I see my hands
(You can know the young posters by the desperate optimism in their posts.)
To: PapaBear3625
That is what my kids’ high school counselors told the kids to do. Have 2 accounts.
To: FromLori
**********
"I lOvE mY jOb"
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posted on
02/21/2011 4:13:37 PM PST
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
To: FromLori
This is not really a difficult question.
Since there is no such thing as a right to a job, then the employer is free to ask, and the employee/candidate is free to say “no” and look for a different job.
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posted on
02/21/2011 4:15:29 PM PST
by
Maceman
(Obama -- he's as American as nasi goreng)
To: FromLori
Geez, Facebook will give anybody your data anyway.
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posted on
02/21/2011 4:18:07 PM PST
by
umgud
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