Colleges and Employers Now Requiring Applicants' Facebook Passwords

[DaJoW]

"After 9/11, we have a culture where some people think it's OK for the government to be this involved in our lives, that it's OK to turn everything over to the government. But it's not. We still have privacy rights in this country, and we still have a Constitution."

So, private institutions requiring you to give them any info they want = the government intruding on your privacy. Fascinating.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

The day I need to legally surrender my password in order to get a job is the day I delete Facebook. I'll still want the job and Facebook just isn't that important to me but there is no way in hell I'm letting my boss control my account.

You won't be able to get a job if you don't give the employer your account name and password. No employer is going to believe you don't have a social networking account.

Yeah, no. They can look for it if they want, it won't exist if this becomes standard here in Canada.

And if a social networking site is required to get the job (what an asinine concept) I'll just make an account with nothing on it.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Yeah, no. They can look for it if they want, it won't exist if this becomes standard here in Canada.

And if a social networking site is required to get the job (what an asinine concept) I'll just make an account with nothing on it.

It doesn't really matter since the employer will automatically suspect you're lying. The same can be said about making a blank account. Hopefully a law will be passed that will ban this idiotic practice but until then I don't see this working out any other way.

Thank god none of it is happening here. Well, looks like I'm not getting a job in the States anytime soon.

 

[CapitalistPig]

Good luck having an employer see it that way. Real careers in professional atmospheres require certain in/out of workplace etiquette. Same with schools. Given that the current generation of facebook users deny any sort of filter they're gonna realize real quick how detrimental that viewpoint will be to their future careers.

Don't care. What I do off the clock is my business only. They have no business sticking their nose into my private life at home, and I'm going to block them at every turn if they try it.

then they fire you. lol. I'm not talking about some local yocal job. I mean law firms, and labs. Places where you need BS degrees. They wouldn't care about "rebels" or the "fighters."

 

[BaronUberstein]

anc[is]Solution: don't use Facebook. Nobody gives a shit about what you just ate or the song lyrics you just posted anyway.

But, clearly somebody does give a shit, seeing how universities are asking for Facebook passwords.

 

[Something Amyss]

This has been a thing since Myspace. Why are people so surprised?

 

[A Satanic Panda]

What if I don't have a facebook account?

Then clearly you don't exist and aren't a real person, because everyone has a Facebook account these days.

You caught me, my name is Vladimir. /russainaccent

Que the "grim realization" thread. When they had student body elections at my school, one of the candidates asked everyone "Who has a facebook?" Literally (not the figurative kind) everyone but me raised their hand. It wasn't a small crowed either. At least a 500 people were packed in the auditorium.

 

[pirateninj4]

I'd tell em to go fuck themselves. Invasion of my life by an institute I was paying for to learn me some shit can be totally fucked.

However, ditching Facebook would also be a good plan.

 

[Mayhemski]

Surely this is some sort of incitement to break a separate agreement you have to sign up with Facebook? I would of thought that would be covered by contractual law of some sort? (Though not American so accept it seems to not be the case).

With regards to the colleges - I assume this is because in the US the college teams act as a training ground for professional sports stars yes? In the UK a while back there was a "scandal" involving some young tennis players (if memory serves - sorry just woken up) facebook accounts and what was being said on them? But surely there are plenty of ways for both colleges and work places to deal with what any student/employee is saying outside of work already if it brings that institution/company into disrepute?

 

[CapitalistPig]

Surely this is some sort of incitement to break a separate agreement you have to sign up with Facebook? I would of thought that would be covered by contractual law of some sort? (Though not American so accept it seems to not be the case).

With regards to the colleges - I assume this is because in the US the college teams act as a training ground for professional sports stars yes? In the UK a while back there was a "scandal" involving some young tennis players (if memory serves - sorry just woken up) facebook accounts and what was being said on them? But surely there are plenty of ways for both colleges and work places to deal with what any student/employee is saying outside of work already if it brings that institution/company into disrepute?

Yeah they do already do something. At the university of Minnesota a Mortuary science major was failed in her ethics class, suspended, and is facing further disciplinary action to see if she deserves expulsion for talking about her cadaver on facebook which is a direct violation of code of conduct for the school, and her professional mortuary society (aka baring you from a future career.) I believe the point is to streamline the process so these kinds of scandals don't occur in the first place. You just won't be accepted to school. Also to give kids the hint that you shouldn't give out personal potentially damaging information about yourself on the internet.

As far as jobs go...... If you get a DUI while working at McDonald's and they find out, you get fired on moral grounds. Which is standard procedure for most workplace practice. Its becoming a part of background checks because the current facebook users don't know how to filter themselves and therefore must be checked out for the company's/school's own interest of association. Users are completely to blame for this outcome.

GRANTED I think a lot of this will all get shot down in court as cases begin to become convoluted as to what is accessible and what isn't. The current code is, "if someone can find it and report it then you are held responsible regardless of you friending the university/workplace."

 

[crimsonshrouds]

Never had a facebook and never will.

 

[aba1]

I would be ok with it but only if your boss gives you his password and username as well. Also if asked I would more than likely just say I don't use facebook.

 

[RJ 17]

I'm already out of college and employed before they started asking for this, but if it ever comes up I'll be able to look the interviewer right in the eye and tell him/her that I don't have a Facebook account (which I honestly don't). What are they going to do? Demand that I go out and make one just so they can check it?

 

[Sarah Frazier]

I'd like to see an employer, or whoever personally oversees applicants, deal with the response "Violates contract with Facebook to share information. Go to them for it." even if they don't have to do much to convince the Supreme Overlords of Facebook to fork over the info. Maybe add in other laws or legal cases where privacy was protected as a round about way of saying SCREW YOU!!! Personally, I'd take the sheet to whoever is overseeing applications and ask why they expect me to break an agreement with one entity just for them and not leave until given a damn good answer.

The funny thing is that I know one person who has about half a dozen FB accounts just to play those stupid games. Free daily gifts that you definitely need, having more 'Villes to play with, and less hassling other people to pitch in. What's to stop them from having an account just for employers to see? After all, all those "friends" with the same last name and similar pictures could easily just be family members with a stunning degree of similarity in everything.

Now I did give my phone number to my doctors because they may find something in one of their tests that should be dealt with NOW rather than in a few weeks. Not to mention reminders when an appointment is coming up soon so I can get out of anything else that may pop up for that same time. They know better than to call just to see how I feel because I'll definitely be calling them if anything feels wrong. Stores, however, have no good reason to have my contact info when I leave the building.

 

[samsonguy920]

I am rather confused why they'd want the password, except maybe to try to get everything they need to steal my identity.
Either case, they would be sorely disappointed in me, as I don't have a Facebook account.