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Social Networks and Employment Law
Are you Putting your Organization at Risk?
WORD OF CAUTION: Be mindful of your activity on FaceBook. More and more employers (recent survey suggested more than 45%) use social media networks to check out potential employees and clients. They are looking for hints as to what type of person you are, checking behavior, language, photos, your likes and even your friends.
Law enforcement is also gaining access to potential suspects and persons of interest when they are investigating a crime. The student recently charged with the tragic events at Chardon High School had posted comments hinting to some of extremist ideas and thinking leading up to the incident. Some students commented or hit the "like" button and they were interrogated by law enforcement as potentially complicit in the activity.
A soldier is currently facing charges for hosting a site critical of the commander in chief. The technology makes us all the communications equivalent of a newspaper publisher every time we say something on FaceBook and hit the "post" "comment" or "send" button. It's all legal and the reality is that while you may think your FaceBook activity is only available for your "friends" there are many loopholes that leave you less protected that you might consider.
A social media expert and privacy attorney recently offered this advice: Think twice before you post things to your social media sites - don't put anything out there that you wouldn't want to be seen by your parent, teacher, current or future employers, law enforcement, etc. As they used to say on each episode of Hill Street Blues -- "be careful out there."
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Some Employers Ask Job Seekers to Share Their Facebook Logins
SEATTLE — When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password. Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to search for his Facebook page. But she couldn’t see his private profile. She turned back and asked him to hand over his login information.
Social Networking Effects on Employment Opportunities
Imagine entering your final semester in college. Throughout the previous four years you have made it a goal to be involved with extracurricular activities at the university, to volunteer in the local community, to maintain a high grade point average and to receive recommendation letters from several well-known professors at the university.
You are ready for your first interview, and have no doubt that you can land that dream job you have been working towards for the last four years. That is until the interviewer refers to direct quotes from your online social network profile and begins asking about your listed interests such as partying, drinking with friends, going to bars, and even your political views. You begin to wonder if they can use this information against you, and ask yourself the question: when did my online social life become a factor in my future professional life?
You are ready for your first interview, and have no doubt that you can land that dream job you have been working towards for the last four years. That is until the interviewer refers to direct quotes from your online social network profile and begins asking about your listed interests such as partying, drinking with friends, going to bars, and even your political views. You begin to wonder if they can use this information against you, and ask yourself the question: when did my online social life become a factor in my future professional life?