Social Networking and those Nosey Employers
By ryokowaren
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Does your boss know too much private info about you?
When you apply for a job, you give the employer permission to run a Background check, and provide a list of references and past employers. Really, this should be more than enough information for them to research and decide if you will be an asset to their company or not. However, recently with the boom of social networking, most companies now check to see if you have a public social networking page where they can get more detailed, personal, and sometimes private information on you.
In the United States, it's illegal for any employer to ask about your
marital status, age, sexuality, living arrangements, etc; but with one
click, they can access your public Facebook or Myspace page and get all
this information within a few seconds.
So, the big question is, "Do
you think that this is right? Should employers be allowed to snoop and
use information from your social networking page? Should this be
outlawed?"
And, as a side note, please make sure that you set your profile on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter (or whatever social networking site that you use) to private. If you choose to keep it public, just know that any current or future employer can view your posts/updates and may choose to use these in ways against you.
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@Duchess OBlunt : That's a very good point that you have. Still, I think we all have at least one friend that should not be on social networking sites because they either don't think about what they say, or they just don't know the privacy controls good enough to use them properly. So, I think that their employer spying on them would be considered bad taste and immoral.
Duchess OBlunt 22 months ago
ryokowaren, This is life as we know it. Looking at your online activity, finding out how you interact with others, tells a prospective employer much about you. One thing everyone seems to forget when talking to friends on the internet. If it's out there, the whole world can see it. If you put it out there, you must do so with the assumption that the whole world will see it. When you look at it in that perspective, it should make you think twice about saying / doing some things on the internet.