I’m signing into my Facebook account and I look to the right of the page and I notice that I’ve received seven friend requests… Six are friends who I went to middle School with back on the East Coast and one has no picture… When I click to see who it was I was astonished to see that my MOTHER had sent me the request. At this moment it became real to me that anyone could sign up for a myspace or a facebook...
My teachers would constantly warn us about how employees would create accounts and sign into these sites and try to find what they could about some of their prospective or current employees. In the end some employer would fire their employees based on pictures on their page but, my question is can one really be judgmental? Teachers do this as well. (I actually have four of my old middle and High School teachers as friends too..)
Should a person’s job be placed on the line because of their pictures, or status’, or their blogs? Okay yes maybe we shouldn’t have pictures of alcohol on our page if we’re under age but when you’re over twenty one does it matter? If we’re free to drink by law in public at a bar why can’t we post them? Why can’t we post is we’re mad, happy, upset, pissed off, or excited in our blogs and status’ without a retribution? I understand that there are rules to using these pages but should we be punished finacially because of what we do in our free and personal time?
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I agree with your opinion about how facebook should not be used as a 'spy' for employers. But tee fact is, you can't argue the whole, 'in my private life' because by putting it on facebook- you are making it public. I'm sure if a boss walked into a bar and one of their employees was getting hammered by teh bar, they might have second thoughts about how responsible he or she actually is.
We live in a world where eveyrthing is on the interent and employers are learning to use it to their advantage. So if you dont want them to know it, jsut dont put it on there.
yes anyone can sign up, but not just anyone can see your page. they have to be your friend. it makes it better than myspace.
i think that it's personal and yes we shouldnt have our jobs put on the line. just think about the reputation that your making for yourself when you do put pictures of drinking on there. or how about when you make nasty comments. it doesn't just affect your job, but how other people can view you.
oh how I miss the good old days, when one had to be a college student, with a colleg email address, to get a facebook account...
I agree with itsxxamanduh and pkubik08. Once you put the stuff up for public view, it is no longer private. It's fair game for employers and anyone else. And these websites are representations of yourself.
Sometimes, posting certain pictures of yourself just isn't a smart idea (one student a few years ago at my school was kicked out of the dorms after someone in reslife found pictures on his myspace showing him drinking and smoking weed, in his dorm room)
But if you do have not-so-positive pictures floating around that you just can't do without, there is a way around getting caught. You can change the settings on both websites so that only friends can see your profile or pictures. Then, anyone else can only see your user picture and, on myspace, whatever little tiny description you've made (mine is dans un monde ideal, l'humanite n'exist pas--it has little accents in places). On Myspace you can even change your real first and last name so future employers wouldn't even be able to find you if you looked. But, neither would any friends looking for you.
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"...There is a crushing guilt that comes with being a Catholic. Whether things are good or bad or you're simply... eating tacos in the park, there is always the crushing guilt."
-30 Rock-
I have no problem with employers or teachers looking at Facebook or Myspace or Livejournal or whatever to try to get insight into who these people really are.
Don't post something in a PUBLIC place if you wouldn't want your mom, your teacher, your boss, your cousin to find it.
It's stupid.
If you're posting pictures of you getting wasted, you're stupid. Plain and simple. I don't care if you're twenty one or not. It's immature and irresponsible. If you're complaining about your job on a public site, you also deserve for it to be seen. I post about how much I hate work all the time... but I've never once said where I work on this site. Because that would be stupid.
Don't put private stuff in a public place. And don't do stupid things. Then you won't have problems at all.
Duh.
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