Everyone who’s looking for a job knows the importance of cleaning up their social media sites to look as professional as possible. You would normally just mark anything private that you wouldn’t want your interviewer to see. But it could now go further than that. Across the nation interviewers have been reported to ask prospective job hires and employees for their social media passwords during interviews and job reviews.
ACLU attorney Catherine Crump said in response to these reports, “ People are entitled to their private lives. You’d be appalled if your employer insisted on opening up your postal mail to see if there was anything of interest inside. It’s equally out of bounds for an employer to go on a fishing expedition through a person’s private social media account.”
Would you share your Facebook password if asked? Do you think there should be laws to ban the practice?
Posted by:Stephanie Grocott
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This is absolutely ridiculous! Everyone has a right to their own lives, and certainly deserves the right to keep it private from their company. Everyone understands what should and shouldn’t be shown at work, and is hopefully smart enough to hide that information. Requesting a password at the interview is beyond what any company should do. There is no way I would want to work for a company that would request such information, and therefore I no, would not share my password with them. And there certainly should be some sort of law against this practice, people have to have the right to privacy, and all social media should be covered under that.
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