[FromLori]

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.

[Professional Engineer]

I wonder if they’d figure out I’m not 106 years old...

[Richard Kimball]

To all the people on this thread who are saying, "Don't have anything on Facebook," this would also include Free Republic. What they want is a list of any forum accounts to which you are a member.

[Ted Grant]

Just don’t have Facebook or Twitter accounts.

[Walts Ice Pick]

Yes, an employer should be able to ask for this information. An employee should have nothing to hide from his boss and there should be no secrets kept from the boss.

[packrat35]

I don’t use Facebook or Myspace or Twitter. Never will understand the appeal.

I also would never give anyone my passwords to anything.

[WePledge]

I lost my Facebook account info in the boating tragedy I’ve been telling you about....

[sargon]

Of course employers are allowed to ask the question; but they can’t force an answer. If a potential employee doesn’t like such a policy, they are free to take their labor elsewhere...

[a fool in paradise]

I would never surrender personal information (such as login passwords) to any interviewer. Might as well ask for my ATM pin number while you’re at it and my paypal login info.

It’s all data mining. Anyone who WOULD surrender such information should be rejected on the spot as he’d be a potential leak for privileged CLIENT information.

[Yaelle]

How would this be different from asking someone for their personal email password?

I think more credible would be to ask the applicant to “friend” the company, and then they could see what the friends see but not the PERSONAL, private messages. Why not just ask the applicant to strip naked and spread their legs?