Employers asking for facebook password

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Originally Posted By: css9450
Originally Posted By: crazyoildude
...she has a facebook account with all bogus info...


I like that idea! I would use a fake name too.



+1

Answer for Facebook: "Im sorry, I do not use Facebook." (Phone not brought with me to interview if they want to try to call me a liar.)

I would provide my phone number, though for anything i THINK would use it for marketing (Autozone, Advance?) - "I am sorry, I do not have a phone."

And if i did not get a call back after interview for dodging their question, I would not be upset.
 
I think if it came down to it, I'd respond to a friend request. I don't have anything to hide.

But to give out my password, not a chance.

I'd suggest my e-mail is in my resume, hit me up with a friend request and I'll let you in.

But to give access to private messages between me and other folks, etc. Not gonna happen.
 
Originally Posted By: Smokescreen
They would never do this in Canada. Our privacy act prohibits it.

Not quite.

http://www.canada.com/business/Employers...9030/story.html

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Job seeker Rob MacLeod says he was "taken aback" when an interviewer asked for his Facebook login and password so he could screen MacLeod's photos as part of the job interview.

MacLeod, a 28-year-old Oakville, Ont., resident, said he offered to log the interviewer in, but he refused, asking to access MacLeod's account directly.

"I have nothing to hide. (I said) 'You can look at it. I just don't like to disclose passwords,' " he recalled of the law enforcement position he applied for in 2009.

According to Fraser, Canada has a "patchwork" of employment privacy laws.

However, there is no specific provision on collecting social media information.

Toronto-based business lawyer Javad Heydary said requiring social media passwords is not illegal in Ontario.
 
Originally Posted By: css9450
But I do get asked often - "Why don't you have Facebook? What's the matter, don't you have any friends?".


Me too. Friends? Yeah, I actually TALK to them, instead of writing on their wall or whatever the heck you do on there.
 
What's next?

Employer ask if I can mow his lawn?
Employer ask if he can have my daughter's phone number?
Employer ask if he can go to Napa with my wife?
 
It's really about nothing but an invasion of privacy, control, busybodism, voyeurism and a popularity contests as a condition of employment.

Just imagine HR looneys scoping out your Facebook leave alone having your password:

Facebook private="What is he trying to hide? Is he a cad? Or maybe even a pedophile! next!"
No Facebook= "Uncool, weirdo, loner, next!"
Not enough friends or facebook details="uncool, weirdo, loner, next!"
Too many friends="irresponsible, party person" or "I'm jealous, next!"
Picture of you at the bar="Pontential alcoholic, next!
..etc.

It's just an invasion of privacy and your personal life with the underlining goal of encroaching on your personal life. It's also a superficial and silly way to judge a candidate.

If the criteria was to win a beauty and popularity contest you might go into acting and potentially make a million dollars per film or episode instead of working hard for a modest salary.
 
[sarcasm] And of course we all know that people in HR and upper management aren't voyeurs, alcoholics, party animals, pedophiles, and keep an open book on their lives. [/sarcasm]

One study showed that management types had six times more tendency to show psychotic behavior than the lower ranks.
 
Originally Posted By: Kestas
[sarcasm] And of course we all know that people in HR and upper management aren't voyeurs, alcoholics, party animals, pedophiles, and keep an open book on their lives. [/sarcasm]

One study showed that management types had six times more tendency to show psychotic behavior than the lower ranks.


Oh absolutely, it's always the "freaks" that go around pointing fingers and suspecting and accusing everyone else of being the "freak" lol.
 
Originally Posted By: css9450
Originally Posted By: spasm3
What do they do if you have no facebook account? I don't.


They'll just assume you're a lonely old man with no friends, and not hire you anyway.

Just kidding, of course. But I do get asked often - "Why don't you have Facebook? What's the matter, don't you have any friends?".




As a middle manager, Facebook is a problem to have. You either have to accept all of your employees as friends, or none of them as friends. Otherwise you are liable for favoritism. If find it easier not to have it.
 
Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more
Originally Posted By: mechanicx
These employers are getting to be as bad as communists.


Communists want your Facebook password?


Even worse they want to monitor and control your private life. That's what they do in communist countries.
 
Originally Posted By: mechanicx
Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more
Originally Posted By: mechanicx
These employers are getting to be as bad as communists.


Communists want your Facebook password?


Even worse they want to monitor and control your private life. That's what they do in communist countries.


I wonder if in communist countries (There really aren't any around any more: China, for example, is a state-dominated capitalism) when they discuss forcing their citizens to disclose their Facebook passwords, someone in the room stands up and says "What do you think we are, American employers?!"
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I have also heard some very distrurbing things coming from school boards attempting to prohibit, regulate and gain access to the social network-related wheelings and dealings of the students within the board - without regard to whether the student's social networking activities take place on board property or if any of the materials in question are relevant in any way to the board. That's simply insane!

Evil is evil. I don't think any governmental system nor economic model has exclusive rights to it (there seems plenty to go around)... For exmaple, maybe we could grab a ouija board and ask a dozen plus recently dead innocent Afgans what they think of capitalists.
 
And yet every place I've worked has made it clear that my password(s) at work should NOT be shared with anyone. At one place it was a potential reason for termination to do so.
 
Like the article says:

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But just because a job interviewer can ask for a job seeker’s Facebook password, it doesn’t mean the individual must supply it. It is ultimately up to you whether you want to provide that information or not. It may cost you the job, but if you’re that offended by the question, you probably wouldn’t like working there anyway.
 
It seems like this would open up a whole can of worms for employers, where they would be given access to information (marital status, family status, etc.) that they can't legally ask about during an interview.
 
Originally Posted By: tommygunn
If they ask for my password I'm just asking for their car keys, lol.


Not unless they have a late model BMW or Merc or better.
 
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