Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords

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Originally Posted by Anonymouse

I don't use Facebook. Or Twitter. Or any other social networking site. Reason? I have a life. I don't need them. If I want to talk to someone, I just go and talk to them, or at least phone, or at worst email them.

You do realise the irony of posting that on a forum, don't you?

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Originally Posted by Anonymouse

I don't use Facebook. Or Twitter. Or any other social networking site. Reason? I have a life. I don't need them. If I want to talk to someone, I just go and talk to them, or at least phone, or at worst email them.


I saw a cartoon (Nemi) in the Metro that summed it up perfectly: there's this nerd sitting in a bar with a laptop and 400 Facebook friends, celebrating his birthday.

The punchline is that he's sitting there alone. 'Nuff said.

Actually, even if I did subscribe to them, and even if it weren't contrary to the T & Cs, there is no way in hell I would share such information with an employer - or anyone else. A password that is known by more than one person is no password at all. If I were asked such a question by an employer, I would terminate the interview then and there, no matter how good the job was. It's that old slippery slope; if they can ask that, then what else can they ask? Where will it end?

No. Citizens, it is time to take a stand on privacy, what's left of it.

so because we use Facebook to communicate, but you use email, we don't have a life and you do?

Originally Posted by Anonymouse

I don't use Facebook. Or Twitter. Or any other social networking site. Reason? I have a life. I don't need them. If I want to talk to someone, I just go and talk to them, or at least phone, or at worst email them.


I saw a cartoon (Nemi) in the Metro that summed it up perfectly: there's this nerd sitting in a bar with a laptop and 400 Facebook friends, celebrating his birthday.

The punchline is that he's sitting there alone. 'Nuff said.

Actually, even if I did subscribe to them, and even if it weren't contrary to the T & Cs, there is no way in hell I would share such information with an employer - or anyone else. A password that is known by more than one person is no password at all. If I were asked such a question by an employer, I would terminate the interview then and there, no matter how good the job was. It's that old slippery slope; if they can ask that, then what else can they ask? Where will it end?

No. Citizens, it is time to take a stand on privacy, what's left of it.

Some people are housebound unless they have assistance to get them out and about.To such Facebook is a boon.


Like our old friend Sociable whose condition makes his life a living hell most days but he keeps in touch with others who suffer from his condition and works online to try and raise awareness of the condition and to get decent help from local authorities for fellow sufferers..