As most of us will begin our job search post graduation, we may not know that our Facebook pages will be invaded like never before. It is normal for most applicant to expect the company that they are interviewing with to browse their social cite's profile page, but just as another user. What we have on our pages would not necessarily cost us the job opportunity because we could just set our pages on private and if the company is not friends with us, they could not see most of the content that is on our pages. Now they have surpassed your privacy and are asking for usernames and passwords so that they may log into your account and browse your page that way.
Is this act legal at all? My argument is that this may be going too far to try to find out in depth information about a candidate. I do not feel as though this process is at all necessary. An individual's personal life and what he or she chooses to do in their personal time has nothing to do with how well they may perform at the job that they are applying for nor how qualified they are to a certain extent. Many candidates should prepare to be offended in the near future when asked to provide this information to the company representative that is interviewing them.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/job-seekers-getting-asked-facebook-passwords-071251682.html
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I very sternly agree. It's hard to believe that a company asking for our usernames and passwords to social media sites is legal. I can't recall much of a debate on this act being made legal or illegal, but it seems like such a straight forward invasion of privacy I still don't understand how it was made legal.
-Blake Brittain
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