http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/20/435126 ... d-for.html

NPR had a piece about this today. I think it’s an outrageous invasion of privacy and I wouldn’t consent to it.

It's not just an invasion of the applicant's privacy. It's an invasion of privacy for every person who is unfortunate enough to be linked digitally with the dupe who gives access.

Considering that my facebook profile is partially fiction (I list the Hamburgler as one of my mentors), um no, I wouldn't consent to this. What's next though, they ask you for your pin number so they can check your banking history?

For my last little part-time, temporary on-call job, I had to sign a consent form for them to do a credit check. That's you banking history and a whole lot more.

I wish I could say that this was unbelievable, but it isn't. This is completely inappropriate though.

In this economy, few will refuse such a request.

Last year, my mom's employer warned employes that if they said negative things about the casino or their job on FB, they would be fired. How can that possibly be legal?

It's called "employment at will." Or, as the pugs call it, "right to work," even though it's really "right to be fired for any reason or no reason."

You gotta admit that's pretty clever/ballsy of employers to try to save themselves the time and money of learning something on their own by making it a condition of the interview continuing. Does anybody think anything on their Facebook is private, despite your settings? These employers are just too lazy/ cheap to do some homework on their candidates before the interview.

I don't have a Facebook account, never will. No Facebook, no Twitter, no MySpace. Don't put my name or picture on yours if you want to be my friend. People are going to be sorry someday they gave up their privacy. When Facebook and Twitter eventually go out of business, where's all that information going to go? It's like when the video rental companies went out of business one by one. Where'd all the credit card and other info they demanded go?

I killed my Facebook account several months ago because of privacy concerns. (and a stalker) I still have one remaining sock-puppet there, but even he hasn't seen the need to log on recently.

I should prolly delete my Twitter and Google+ accounts too, also, since I rarely check them, but that would involve effort.

That said, please allow me to say this about that: I don't miss "social media" one litlle bit. I did have a couple days of withdrawl when I bagged Facebook, but that quickly turned into an overwhelming sense of freedom. I found out that I didn't give a rat's ass what somebody I barely talked to in high school was doing with...whatever. I come from a small family, but those I connected with on Facebook were all fucking whiners, attention whores or self-centered concern trolls. (with the exception of one brother who actually likes people and makes witty and trenchent observations about reality. He just e-mails me shit now. Works for me.)

Funny thing is, fambly and "friends" keep trying to guilt me, invite me back and ,"Oh, well, if you were back on Facebook you'd have known about (fill in the blank)"

Hmm... Exclusion. Isolation. Ridicule. Invitations to come... back... to...

FaceCult.

I'ma go play wif my cat. She never tries to make me take a personality test, but she does require boops 'n' scritches. That's a "like" I can give.

Too late, Estiveo. We already got book made on you. We just ain't letting on for now!

Facebook warns users not to share their password with potential employers, threatens legal action



http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/busine ... -potential

Remember kids, facebook values your privacy. It knows exactly how much its worth.

I'm looking at asking for employment at your firm. Could I get FB names and passwords of all management and line staff to help me decide if I should go forward with that idea?

Story today on teh Nooz (kgo7) that local LEOs are asking detainees for their Facebook passwords to "establish a timeline and help verify your alibi."

And these morons are buying it, then getting busted for other stuff that they've copped to on the FB pages. Usually photos of them using drugs.

Morons.

And yet...being stoopit is not a defense so, screw 'em.

As my cop ex-roomie always said: "If they were smart, we wouldn't catch 'em."

Zactly.

I had a boyfriend once upon a time (30+ years ago) who rented a room from an L.A. County Shurff. The other two lodgers were LAPD. Divorced lawmen, the bunch of them. They all gave my (musician) bf any low weight bags o' pot that they confiscated during their shifts. It was easier than writing it up for them, and they knew my bf and I were discrete. Cops got the best dope, right?

They did not know that we were both dealing coke to support our heroin habits. Hence the discretion. Thank dog for sobriety and the statute of limitations.

I wonder what my Facebook page would have looked like if Facebook existed then?

Zactly.