That would be the end of any interest I might have in an employer, a school, or whatever, the conversation would be over.
Pretty funny. I have two facebook accounts. One is squeaky clean.
Actually I have a third, but it is a fake name. It is a person that is virtual only...
So, if your profile picture isn't a picture of you......you can simply say "sorry, I don't have a FB account." That is, IF you want to be so kind. I am not sure I could be.
Not a bonafied occupational requirement.
Means they can’t ask that question, anymore than they can ask age or religion.
If you tell them you don’t use social media of any type and only use the WWW for surfing or emailing, are you instantly disqualified since they can’t check your facebook/myspace/twitter account? I use none of these nor do I text. Does that make you a suspicious character not to be trusted? Just because you don’t want to share what your dog barfed up this morning or what brand of milk you bought with every troll out there? I see folks so engrossed in their tweeting or texting or facebooking just walking along oblivious to what’s going on around them. Makes for easy targets. Just sayin’.
I wonder if Obama’s spies are in any way involved, or if this is just a really stupid idea that the schools & employers thought up by themselves.
On another subject, I could not delete emails from my Outlook this morning and the first thing I thought was that the admiistration hadn’t finished downloading my emails to their enemies database.
Suddenly the delete began working. Very strange.
No one needs any job (or academic program) that badly. Sounds like they are looking for evidence of evil, anti-progressive sympathies.
I asked this question on the previous thread: is it possible to create a FB account for the sole purpose of giving the middle finger to requests such as this? I don’t have a FB account.
Well I guess that makes it VERY wrong then, can't have the Zuckermann getting angry now.
College students, employees ask for College president`s and CEO`s Facebook passwords
Do as Nancy Reagan says and just say no.
If my employer want to see my Facebook account, I hope he/she enjoys reading my posts about:
1) My rants about Syracuse losing Fab Melo for the tournament.
2) How much I enjoy Jim Boeheim’s rants during a press conference
3) My wife and I agreeing that Sarah Palin is not just hot but would make a great president.
4) Pictures of me flipping the bird to Georgetown fans.
5) My daily comments agreeing with posts by Walter Williams.
6) Comments on why I prefer Glock handguns over anything else
7) Comments of me crash talking with Carolina fans
8) Wishing my gay cousin Happy Birthday and congratulations on his gay engagement(ugh)
9) Comments about how the hot girls from high school are 20 years later Rosanne Barr look-a-likes
10) Comments on How much I just LOVE my job!!
This falls under the “If you have nothing to hide, there is nothing to worry about citizen.
From what little I’ve seen on some folk’s facebook pages (most certainly NOT from my machine...I’ll not be infected by such blather)...I’d not even think of hiring the vast majority of those who choose to be enrolled.
Not surprising in a country where people urinate on command for a job.
Is anyone seriously surprised by this? For the average user the internet has never been private.
I would tell them that I would give you my password and user name as soon as they gave me their’s.
These SOB’s think they own you just because your applying for a job or working for them.They’re NUTS.
You see, here’s the deal with Facebook. It’s quick and easy. There is a problem with quick and easy however. It’s not secure. That is why our secrets have been stolen by the Chinese, hackers and such.
We assume there is privacy? Let me phrase this differently. Suppose you take your personal diary and leave it at a Starbucks. You would rightly assume that your deepest personal thoughts have been compromised. When you put your secrets on someone’s file server in who knows what country or soon to be a ship at sea why should you expect any difference.
You are truly stupid if you expect confidentiality in the Ether.
I think this goes too far. Way too far.