Montana City Wants Your Facebook Information

[kawligia]

The vast majority of employers do searches on facebook, myspace, etc. AFAIK, this is the first one with the audacity to demand your password.

If you have ever applied for a decent job and haven't gotten it even though you were qualified, check to make sure you don't have any "incriminating" stuff on any social networking sites. There are a lot of people out there who got turned down for good jobs because they put up videos of themselves getting drunk and acting stupid.

It's one of the reasons why I don't get involved with any of those sites in the first place.

 

[Accountfailed]

Step 1: you and friends make new social networking profiles
Step 2: use said profiles to extol each others' virtues and clean moral fiber
Step 3: profit

Alternately:

Step 1: make social networking profile that closely resembles one of these idiots who thinks everything on the internet is true.
Step 2: fill profile with tales of embezzlement, petty theft, vague references to illicit, or even illegal, activities.
Step 3: profit

Step 1: join social networks
Step 2: write usernames and passwords on underpants
Step 3: hand over underpants when montana asks for it
Step 4: PROFIT!

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Wow, this is highly facistic...

I love how America keeps going further and further down the path to 1984.

 

[Arcyde]

Why would they need to give them there password as well?

That's just stupid.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

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[Calobi]

Anyone else want to apply for jobs there now? When asked for all my information, I would be need another piece of paper to finish listing everything. And after they spend all their time looking through my Internet history, they would have wasted a lot of money and man-hours for nothing since this is the only site I ever use.

 

[The Shade]

Step 1: you and friends make new social networking profiles
Step 2: use said profiles to extol each others' virtues and clean moral fiber
Step 3: profit

Alternately:

Step 1: make social networking profile that closely resembles one of these idiots who thinks everything on the internet is true.
Step 2: fill profile with tales of embezzlement, petty theft, vague references to illicit, or even illegal, activities.
Step 3: profit

Step 1: Move out of Montana City and away from the fascist weirdness
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit

 

[jasoncyrus]

It's not legal, end of story.

You simply never tell your employer you have an account with any of the sites they list and make sure your username isnt connected to you in anyway. my username is a perfect example, Jasoncyrus is no where close to my real name =P

 

[scotth266]

No, I'm not giving you my password. Nice try. I'll work somewhere else, thank you.

 

[Simriel]

Hand over passwords? That must be illegal.

 

[Gamer137]

And this is the problem with having "online" profiles. If there is one huge con to say about the invention of the internet it is that getting people employed just got a while lot harder and colder experience.

Careerbuilder and monster and other online job engines just make the person looking for work a number which employers get to pick up that number and look to see if they are qualified.

The point of the interview is to guage their social abilities and attitude to see if the candidate would fit not only the job but with co-workers.

This is taking that interview part to the extreme. Sure some people are clean but even having one political view or religious view that the employer does not like and bam your name is out of the application bin. I do respect background checks to ensure that candidates are not or have not commited any felony crimes but this is going beyond a background check. Also with if this does become a trend and more and more of this generation is required to give out their facebook info and the like so employers can judge candidates are of "high moral fiber" then be prepared to fire people en masse and watch how the United States just eats itself alive with unemployment.

Well said.

 

[far_wanderer]

I don't have one so I don't really care. Wait do I have one? Oh well, I'm never on it.

I should look into that...

Note the word "Forum":

"Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: MySpace [http://www.facebook.com], etc.," the waiver reads.

To paraphrase what many others have said already, the problem arises when they ask for passwords. Up until that point, they are asking you to provide the information necessary for them to find you, but they have to figure out on their own how to access it. When you provide a password to them, not only do you give them an extraordinary amount of control over your personal accounts, but you also give them free access to anything anyone has said to you in confidence on any of those sites. That's a betrayal of personal trust, and for many people it will probably involve breaching some contracts.
To simplify: asking for a username lets them look at what you've said, which is questionable but probably within the bounds of acceptability. Asking for passwords gives them access to everything anyone has said to you, which is not okay.
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[Bobkat1252]

Giving them permission to view my Facebook? No problem, happy to oblige.

Giving them my Facebook password? Not on your life.

 

[joystickjunki3]

I don't mind listing the memberships so much. I'd rather not, but I can deal w/ that part.

I don't, however, think I could just hand over passwords and such. Usernames? Maybe. Email address? Sure.

But definitely no passwords.

 

[Echolocating]

I think Montana just got the internet last week so all this computer stuff is pretty new to them.

 

[_Nocturnal]

Also, the city would like you to state all the pet names your girlfriend/boyfriend calls you here:
.......................................................................................

Preferred sexual positions here:
.......................................................................................

Any and all safewords used during practice of BDSM here:
.......................................................................................

And lastly, location(s) of spare keys to your house here:
.......................................................................................

Just, you know, to verify moral fiber.

 

[khain13]

This is the digital equivalent of giving them the key to your house and permission to come over and go through your stuff when you aren't home. I just wonder how this possibly got past their legal department.