alisonb
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How about this :shock: - http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC120320-0000127/Job-seekers-getting-asked-for-Facebook-passwords
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I'd laugh at them for a request like that . I dOnt face book or twitter . I wouldn't have anything to hide but that allows access to your friends pages and you can't control your friends and what they post . But to me that is infringing on privacy ..
melking
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I agree with JS but Facebook will certainly give you a look into someones character.
lynnmcmahan
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There's two sides to every story and then there's the truth.
I see a lot of stuff on Facebook that is just plain stupid to post to the world. Remember, life is tough and if you are dumb it's even tougher.
I see a lot of stuff on Facebook that is just plain stupid to post to the world. Remember, life is tough and if you are dumb it's even tougher.
Galloways1
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lynnmcmahan":3dvgl9o2 said:
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well said
Workinonit Farm
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We don't do Facebook or twitter or Myspace either. The only annoying thing about NOT doing the Facebook thing is many folks I know, even businesses tell one to "go to our Facebook page", well, you can't do that unless you join Facebook.
Katherine
Katherine
Hi Katherine,
I set up a Facebook page at the behest of a client for whom I was executing a mortgage loan a few years ago. She was surprised I didn't have one and after hastily slapping one together (with the help of my teenage daughter) I suddenly had the "credibility" she needed to feel better about doing business together. I guess this is the world in which we live.
Larry
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I set up a Facebook page at the behest of a client for whom I was executing a mortgage loan a few years ago. She was surprised I didn't have one and after hastily slapping one together (with the help of my teenage daughter) I suddenly had the "credibility" she needed to feel better about doing business together. I guess this is the world in which we live.
Larry
aka TT
cow pollinater
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Boy that's a slippery slope... Wait until the the first closet gay etc. person with a chip on thier shoulder doesn't get hired after giving up the password. The lawsuits will roll... "They're not allowed to ask if I'm gay or..." It won't last after the first few lawsuits roll in.
Personally, I think a potential employer should be able to ask whatever they want. If they ask a bunch of questions that make you REALLY uncomfortable then perhaps this is not the job for you! It will come out sooner or later. :nod:
We've got hiring someone so regulated that employers can't screen out people that are potential lawsuits in the making and people that will give their company a bad reputation. I personally don't want to know anything about a potential employees private life but I'd sure like to know if they're the type of person that will run my name into the ground when they think I'm not looking and I'll use every tool that's legal to figure out who is the real deal and who isn't.
Personally, I think a potential employer should be able to ask whatever they want. If they ask a bunch of questions that make you REALLY uncomfortable then perhaps this is not the job for you! It will come out sooner or later. :nod:
We've got hiring someone so regulated that employers can't screen out people that are potential lawsuits in the making and people that will give their company a bad reputation. I personally don't want to know anything about a potential employees private life but I'd sure like to know if they're the type of person that will run my name into the ground when they think I'm not looking and I'll use every tool that's legal to figure out who is the real deal and who isn't.
john250
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Kinda like living in a small town. Sort of creepy, I think, but I'm old and I don't have to worry about. I have maybe 4 pics on facebook and none of them involve me passed out in public.
I like to think I'd look a potential employer in the eye and ask nicely "why, do you want my password" ?
I guess the answer would depend on how bad they needed help. And how bad I needed work.
I like to think I'd look a potential employer in the eye and ask nicely "why, do you want my password" ?
I guess the answer would depend on how bad they needed help. And how bad I needed work.
Workinonit Farm
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TennesseeTuxedo":6ksdvdd8 said:
I remember when having a website would give "credibility", times have changed. I'm sure, at some point in the future, I'll find myself joining out of necessity. Like cell phones. There was a time some years ago I didn't think we'd ever have a cell phone, now my husband and I each have one. Nothing fancy though :lol:
Katherine
Ouachita
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I can look at this whole scenerio another way. As an employer, if I ask an applicant for something private like that, and they are stupid, desparate, or gullible enough to give it to me, I would NOT hire them. There are such things as proprietary data, intellectual property, and trade "secrets" that I wouldn't wan't some bucket mouth telling people. I'm a first impression, impressionable person, and if an interview, or series of interviews ever escalated to a need to know someones facebook login, games already over
LazyARanch
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I'd say "I'll be happy to show my Facebook page to you, but I am NOT handing over my password".
How would they expect me to keep confidential info CONFIDENTIAL if I'm handing over my OWN confidential info?? :dunce:
I call :bs:
How would they expect me to keep confidential info CONFIDENTIAL if I'm handing over my OWN confidential info?? :dunce:
I call :bs:
