Monday, April 9, 2012
Bryer Crawford- Blog # 4- Facebook Password
I chose to write about ACLU: Facebook password isn't your boss' business. This article is written by Doug Gross who works for CNN and this article was written on March 22, 2012. This article states that employers are starting to ask their future employees for their facebook log in account. They then will log into your account and go through everything. I knew employers were checking facebook profiles and photos but not going as far as asking for their passwords and logging in as the person. They will go through everything including your private/personal messages. They are called private messages for a reason. Most have objected and not gave out their password but some have given in because it was a decision of giving the password and keeping your job or not giving the password and hitting the road. This is just like asking someone for their personal email account and password and reading all of the emails. This is private and everyone has a right to have their own private life. I had no idea that this was going on and like most others I do not agree with it. This is not right, I do not even agree with the fact that they are basing some employment oppturnities on what their facebook looks like. What they have been doing is a lot better than what they are doing now and if this should change it should go back to the way it was. I feel that this is wrong and unfair in many ways.
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What they are doing in my opinion is totally wrong. It is none of any companies business of what there employee’s personal information is. There is really no privacy anymore and people feed way too much of their own personal information on Facebook and other social networks unaware the everyone can see, local police departments, and even the next manager that you are hoping will hire you. If my boss were to ask me for my password to my Facebook I would feel very uncomfortable and offended that anyone would expect that they have any right to my personal and private information. When companies judge their workers by their Facebook seems just wrong to me. A persons Facebook shouldn’t decide how a person preforms on the job. A person could have an inappropriate Facebook but be an A+ worker and always on their game. Social media networks have nothing to do with how people work.
ReplyDeleteThat is too much. At the end of the day what you do on your personal time should not be brought to the work place. Your professional life differs from your personal life. So in that case, bosses should not be able to ask for your Facebook password. Just like a boss should not have that right, the employee should not be posting certain things on their account. This might make them look bad. Like Tony said about the A+ work, as long as you are a good worker, other factors should not matter to other people. With this being said, an employee should be more discreet about information that they post online. Facebook has had a lot of problems with pictures not really being deleted, or imagine a post or video. The low key that a person is, the less uncomfortable a person would feel about a boss asking to see their page.
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