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[Scelly9]

It's so they can determine whether to stone her for adultery or flog her for being alone with an unrelated man.

Exactly.

[Truean]

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-20/job-applicants-facebook/53665606/1

Huh?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I've heard it suggested that some of these "so give me your passwords" incidents aren't trying to get inside your Facebook to look at it at all. They're trying to see if you can keep important secrets under any kind of pressure.

Only some, mind you.

[fqllve]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

What the hell? How are they that stupid? Are they gonna start asking me to read the most embarrassing excerpts from my diary next? Truean, I would love to be the person to pay you to sue these dicks.

[Truean]

I've heard it suggested that some of these "so give me your passwords" incidents aren't trying to get inside your Facebook to look at it at all. They're trying to see if you can keep important secrets under any kind of pressure.

Only some, mind you.

"We were just testing you.... Psych!" <--- Not the defense I'd bank on.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I've heard it suggested that some of these "so give me your passwords" incidents aren't trying to get inside your Facebook to look at it at all. They're trying to see if you can keep important secrets under any kind of pressure.

Only some, mind you.

"We were just testing you.... Psych!" <--- Not the defense I'd bank on.

Certainly not a strong defense, no. But it would be interesting if getting a job or not were to hinge on keeping information instead of giving it, seeing how that is completely counter-intuitive.

[Frumple]

Yeeaaah... there is absolutely zero chance I'd willingly give that kind of information to anyone, nevermind someone I don't know personally and well (and where lives, just in case). Is our new generation so poorly trained on basic internet security practices that this sort of thing actually flies?

I'unno, maybe I'm a throwback to an earlier time or something. I can't help be surprised how much the sheer audacity of asking someone for passwords and suchlike strikes me as just... impudent, or something. *channels old biddy* Nosy beyond public decency. It's like someone flipping up your skirt or yanking your pants down to check the package or something, y'anno'? S'just not something a civilized person does. And these people doing it as a matter of course? As part of their hiring practices!? That is shameful. These employers should be ashamed of themselves!

... now let's everyone internalize that last bit of huff and then disseminate it into public consciousness. Stir up some nice indignation. That kind of action is an insult to our honor, decency, and moral fiber! It should not stand!

[GlyphGryph]

Anyone asks me, I'll just say I don't have one. They can make of that what they will.

Hopefully they wouldn't hire me, and I wouldn't have to spend the next god knows how long barely resisting the urge to punch them in the face every time I see them.

[Sirus]

They're welcome to look at mine. It hasn't been used in over a year, has no friends or posts or anything. I just don't care very much about social networking

[Max White]

And that is a privilege you are willing to give them, but that hardly makes it a right that can be demanded of somebody.

[Sirus]

Well, of course not. I recognize that my personal views aren't (and shouldn't be!) the law of the land.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's not about what information they can gain by access, it's the principle of your willing surrender of your own privacy.

[Sirus]

That might be a problem for people who have more than their name on a blank Facebook page. As I said though, it's not a problem for me. I still wouldn't be willing to give employers my password, and I wouldn't want them to see my private information (which is kinda the whole reason for having both publicly and privately visible versions).

[Reelya]

Silly idiots, you should have 2 facebooks, 1 with your real name, school "friends", family, links to church membership. And another with a pseudonym and your links to your crazy drug-addled friends :/

[Nadaka]

Plus using someone else's facebook password can also be considered criminal hacking.