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#1 Doli on 12 Sep 2008 - 18:03

Do you find this an invasion of personal privacy?

No, because its out there for the public to see.
Change your accout to private so only your friends and people you message (future friends?) can see your profile.

(3 replies) #2 Magallanes on 12 Sep 2008 - 18:17

I still don't find any advantage in use Facebook or not.

How many people can say "i obtain a nice job only because facebook" ?

#2.1 Mike on 12 Sep 2008 - 18:26

(Magallanes said @ #2)

I still don't find any advantage in use Facebook or not.

How many people can say "i obtain a nice job only because facebook" ?

unless i'm missing something, people don't use facebook for getting a job.

as for the questions in the article, if you don't want someone to read something, dont stick it on a public place (ie the internet)!

#2.2 Magallanes on 13 Sep 2008 - 00:11

then, whats the point of facebook?.

#2.3 ec4912 on 16 Sep 2008 - 16:51

My sister-in-law was an au pair looking to come to the US for a job. She spent 4 months depending on a webpage on the au pair site, nothing. She joined Facebook and joined an au pair group and two weeks later she's in Seattle working for a family.

#3 +Hell-In-A-Handbasket on 12 Sep 2008 - 18:24

no i wouldn't modify anything

and no i don't consider it invasion of privacy, anything posted on the internet is public as far as im concerned, not private

(3 replies) #4 Cryton on 12 Sep 2008 - 18:33

Hey Boss, if you're reading this, give me a damn pay rise you smart-alec, fat-ass, no-neck slap-head.

#4.1 kezzzs on 12 Sep 2008 - 18:42

Clean out your desk - you're fired.

#4.2 ricknl on 12 Sep 2008 - 19:12

Well, it all depends on where you are. You wouldn't be able to fire him in Holland.

#4.3 sreteP on 17 Sep 2008 - 09:57

(kezzzs said @ #4.1)

Clean out your desk - you're fired.

#5 lylesback2 on 12 Sep 2008 - 18:34

My friend told me he was hired because his boss liked his facebook page, and browsed through his photos (a lot of drinking and joke pictures) and said he found him to have a good sense of humour, and would fit in with his other employees, but it was a landscaping job.

I hope no one here has any offensive pictures you don't want your future employer to see

(1 reply) #6 Kreuger on 12 Sep 2008 - 18:43

I'm not gonna change nothing. If they don't like me for who I am, they don't need me and I don't need them. I do think there's a bit of discrimination though. I mean, so what if you have a picture of you having a few drinks with a buddy. Most people are responsible enough to not go to work plastered (or I would hope)

#6.1 Nate Archibald on 12 Sep 2008 - 19:39

(Kreuger said @ #6)

I'm not gonna change nothing. If they don't like me for who I am, they don't need me and I don't need them. I do think there's a bit of discrimination though. I mean, so what if you have a picture of you having a few drinks with a buddy. Most people are responsible enough to not go to work plastered (or I would hope)

I agree.

(2 replies) #7 Webworldx on 12 Sep 2008 - 19:27

Hmm. I do find it a bit of an invasion. Is it okay for your prospective bosses to drive past your house and look in the windows before employing you?

#7.1 markjensen on 12 Sep 2008 - 19:39

Not peek inside your windows. But if you made a billboard in public, I think he would be within his rights to look at it.

#7.2 redeemed on 13 Sep 2008 - 00:16

(markjensen said @ #7.1)

Not peek inside your windows. But if you made a billboard in public, I think he would be within his rights to look at it.

That's good way of saying it

(1 reply) #8 spetz on 12 Sep 2008 - 19:59

I would think they have better things to do with there time. Now i dont think it should make a difference on what you have on your facebook page if you get the job. Now if your smoking a blunt in your profile pic or professing to be a neo-nazi on facebook then you dont deserve the job. Only problem i could see is misunderstanding inside jokes and such.

#8.1 basix on 13 Sep 2008 - 19:46

Not exactly, as owners of a service station we constantly interview for the "right" employee, If you put your email address on your resume, I'm googlin' it. We won't dig into FB or MS for dirt but if The Google shows you posting on say puppykicker.com your cut. That being said 8 outta 9 of our employees are on our FB friends list and they can puff puff pass all they want!

#9 Dane on 12 Sep 2008 - 20:14

Make it private so only your friends, and people that you want to be able to access it can. That solves the problem I think.

(2 replies) #10 Timble on 12 Sep 2008 - 22:41

Aren't Facebook profiles 'friends-only' by default?

#10.1 excalpius on 13 Sep 2008 - 09:36

Shhh, don't let facts get in the way of advertising-driven articles hyping fear and ignorance.

#10.2 shockz on 13 Sep 2008 - 17:53

(Timble said @ #10)

Aren't Facebook profiles 'friends-only' by default?

No... its friends AND network by default.

So if you join a regional network or college network when joining... if they are also in that network then they can see everything. You need to make sure you edit your privacy options if you only want your friends to see your profile.

(2 replies) #11 cJr. on 13 Sep 2008 - 02:19

People are different in their professional lives than they are in thier private life!!! Therefore, it is wrong for employers to look at your Facebook (or at least make decisions on the fact that you sometimes go to a night club & have a drink).

It's ridiculous! I wouldn't jump around the office dancing with two alchopops in my hand screaming my head off to Mr. Brightside, but I would in my personal life, in a club. So, therefore why should a future employer make a decision about whether to hire you, based on your private life? Shouldn't he make the decision based on how you are as a person & the answers you give in interviews!

A better example:

At work, with customers, I talk extremely politely & use a more mature vocabulary than when I am with my friends in my private life. I call people "Sir" & "Madam", but I don't call my friends that - therefore that explains my point! You are different in your private life than you are in your professional work life!

I feel very strongly on this matter, because I should be allowed to have a life & not be discriminated on by a future employer just because I don't act 'professional', in my private life, like I do at work!

Ridiculous!

Last edited by cJr. on 13 Sep 2008 - 02:25

#11.1 joeydoo on 13 Sep 2008 - 05:56

You use 'sir' and 'madam'? Bit Victorian and obsequious isn't it.... I hate that, so I wouldn't hire you for a job if I found that information out about you. I worked in customer service for years and never used language to lower myself to the level of a servant. Being nice and polite doesn't mean you have to be a customer's bitch monkey.

#11.2 shhac on 15 Sep 2008 - 15:16

(joeydoo said @ #2)

You use 'sir' and 'madam'? Bit Victorian and obsequious isn't it.... I hate that, so I wouldn't hire you for a job if I found that information out about you. I worked in customer service for years and never used language to lower myself to the level of a servant. Being nice and polite doesn't mean you have to be a customer's bitch monkey.

Using 'sir' or 'madam' doesn't mean that you're lower than the person you're talking to unless you believe yourself unworthy of the title of sir or madam.

And on the topic of employers making decisions based on what they can find out on the internet, I see no problem with it. If they read your facebook to discover that you were fired from a previous job for neglecting responsibility, then why shouldn't they take this into account when considering employing you?

(1 reply) #12 sweetsam on 13 Sep 2008 - 04:51

You would be surprised how many employers google your name.

#12.1 smithy_dll on 13 Sep 2008 - 10:19

Hrm,

Just looking up my name on wikipedia alone, am I the athlete, baseball historian, justice, lawyer, actor, director, bishop, historian, mormon, economist, missionary, mathematician, virus writer, computer scientist, soldier, doctor, or none of the above.

#13 smooth_criminal1990 on 13 Sep 2008 - 08:35

make your profile private, and only leave an e-mail address.
Facebook Sorted

oh, unless you happen to have your future boss as a friend

#14 Fred Derf on 13 Sep 2008 - 19:19

Here are some examples of what people can find out if you are not careful:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...Technology/home

#15 leesmithg on 15 Sep 2008 - 06:19

How would they know the persons page(s)?

Unless they applicant advertises it on their c.v.

#16 Amodin on 15 Sep 2008 - 13:05

Just make it really easy, and don't use dumb crap like that.

#17 Xeta on 16 Sep 2008 - 18:21

This is one of the reasons why I closed my Myspace and made by Facebook private. That and I don't put anything I consider private on the damn thing anyways. The only reason I have a Facebook is to keep up with long distance friends who seem too busy to use a phone.

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