If you were asked for your Facebook password, what would you say or do? Job applicants cringe to the idea of sharing their social media activity history with their potential employers. However, is it really as bad of a breach in privacy than people think? Does the right to privacy mean anything shared online should be kept confidential? Interestingly, just as applicants have the right to say no to this query, employers have the right to ask. To some employers, the benefits of surveilling potential job candidates’ Facebook activities outweigh the concerns for personal ‘online’ space. Employers must be allowed to ask for Facebook passwords when deemed necessary in order to not only hire the best candidate for the job, but also to protect children …show more content…
Interviews are greatly suited for sizing up your potential employee and making difficult decisions on who to reel in. Unfortunately, what you see now can change shape outside of the office. Employers should be able to ask for a potential employee’s Facebook password. As stated in the essay Why Asking for a Job Applicant’s Facebook Password is Fair Game by Alfred Edmond Jr., it is deemed important and necessary to know every single possible detail about an applicant in order to make the best hire (133). This is a great point because although an applicant may seem to be a great fit now, he may end up causing an unforeseen problem in the future. People lie all of the time, unfortunately. The common idea of interviews is simple: conform to what your employers need, say what they want to hear, and dress professionally. Life is different out of the workplace. If employers knew how applicants behaved outside of the work environment, they could find well-esteemed candidates with the ability to get the job done right with good …show more content…
People have the tendency to believe everything and anything that is posted online should be private. They don’t realize that what they post or send over a platform like Facebook isn’t exactly complete privacy. As Alfred Edomnd Jr. said in his essay Why Asking for a Job Applicant’s Facebook Password is Fair Game, “… don’t think business vs. personal. Think public vs. private. And if something is truly private, do not share it on social media out of a misplaced faith in the expectation of privacy (134).” Just as employees have the right to say no to this request, employers have the right to ask. Employers only want the best for everyone and that is why they need Facebook access to who they deem a potential problem. Asking is fair
Personal privacy is a very serious case. Your personal items should stay personal to avoid the risk of someone stealing your information. Three key ideas that can help keep your information safe are less information giving, reading guidelines before agreeing to it, and downloading less risky apps that can potential give out any information.
Alfred Edmond Jr. wrote the article, Why Asking for a Job Applicant’s Facebook Password is Fair Game. In the article he assessed and argued that you should provide your potential employer with your Facebook password because nothing is ever really private. Edmond effectively persuades the reader to agree with him by uniting his audience and establishing his credibility, providing scenarios that toy with the reader’s emotions, and by making logical appeals. In addition to making these appeals he successfully incorporates an informal tone that further sways the reader to grasp the essence of his argument. These are the elements that make Edmond’s argument valid and persuasive. He is able to convince us that providing a possible employer with something that is private such as our password will ultimately be beneficial for everyone in the situation.
Defining exactly what he meant by giving your Facebook password to your employer would help his argument by defining how much access that the employer would have to the employee’s social media account. Mostly he seems to be making the case that the employer should be able to see the public posts on the employee’s social media, but giving the employer the password would give the employer unlimited access to not only see everything that the employee posts, but also unlimited access to private messages, and access to alter their social media
“Why Asking For a Job Applicant's Facebook Password is Fair Game” by Alfred Edmond Jr., published in the Black Enterprise Magazine on April 2, 2012, is an essay regarding how employers have the right to ask one’s Facebook password in order to check one’s social media activity. The author discusses how although he would say no if an employer asked for his Facebook password, he as an employer would ask the applicant’s password for background check. Alfred Edmond Jr. says that he would try to negotiate any other way to satisfy an employer’s request for Facebook password by doing something else, although he does agree that looking into employee and applicant’s Facebook may be beneficial to help a business. The author discusses that it is reasonable
Ever since Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, millions of people have flocked to the website, resulting in “1.49 billion active users” (Facebook). Facebook allows users to not only reconnect with old friends, but also share whatever the user deems necessary. Facebook has many privacy settings that enable users to prevent anyone from seeing what they post. Even so, skeptics out in the world strongly attest that Facebook, and similar social media websites, aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. In the essay Why Asking for a Job Applicant’s Facebook Password Is Fair Game, Alfred Edmond Jr. addresses the false security Facebook provides to its users, and uses that notion to support his claim that bosses should
With social media websites being the main hub of personal information, advertisers are consistently monitoring our social media activity, having the ability to look into our personal information. In the article "Advertising and Consumer Privacy: Old Practices and New Challenges." by Justine Rapp states, “Fueled by advances in capabilities and interconnectedness of computer based technology, advertisers are able to collect and assimilate information on consumers like no other time history” (51). Facebook has become the number one, social media website around the globe. It is the most popular website used by personal and business users in today’s society. In the article “Using Social Media to Reach Consumers: A Content Analysis of Official Facebook Pages” by Amy Parsons states, “As of July 2011, the social network site Facebook claims to have over 750 million members and in the terms of activity.” (27), making it easy to meet and connect with others. Facebook is considered the “hot spot” for online social activity, however, it exposes personal information about its consumers to
When using Facebook, users are able to perform many different tasks while connecting with various individuals. Some of the functions and applications that are available for users include: the ability to create a profile, become friends with individuals, send private messages, post comments on friend’s walls, and share pictures on your profile page. Along with these functions, there must be a level of protection that guards the Facebook account holders. However, according to Facebook’s privacy principles, the network states that “People should have the freedom to share whatever information they want, in any medium or any format, and have ...
Perhaps the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, said it best when he claimed that privacy is no longer a “social norm.” Virtually everyone has a smart phone and everyone has social media. We continue to disclose private information willingly and the private information we’re not disclosing willingly is being extracted from our accounts anyway. Technology certainly makes these things possible. However, there is an urgent need to make laws and regulations to protect against the stuff we’re not personally disclosing. It’s unsettling to think we are living in 1984 in the 21st century.
Social medias have become a big part of our society now, they are being used in all aspects of our life. We are connected twenty-four hours a day, at work, school, home, shopping etc. There is a necessity, a need to be connected to these social media’s, to feel like you are a part of society. With these growing numbers in being connected to social media’s on the web, there comes a growing desire for privacy and safety. In this paper I will discuss and analyze the social media’s themselves, the dangers that arise from them, and how all these correlate to privacy.
...stakes or putting something that might compromise you or anyone at one point. Even the fact that you put seemingly basic facts about you, such as the fact that you like a certain career, will influence how Facebook will show up for you. Ever wonder how you see ads on Facebook that have to do exactly with the things you have stated you liked on Facebook? That’s why. Facebook knows what you like and it uses that towards luring you into buying things or clicking on certain websites. Facebook is a mirror of yourself, a mirror that has always been highly priced because we value privacy and security more than anything, especially in the American culture. Alas, this valuable asset is lost in seconds, on any day and at any time, at the fingertips of external powers…
This is yet another way of invading privacy. In the past, employers would only know what you told them in your interview. They would assess your skills and determine if you were right for the job, aside from knowing your beliefs or views. However, now with Facebook an employer can see all the personal information, this can negatively influence a candidate’s job. The same goes for those who are currently employed and potential students. “Dr. Nora Barnes, Director for the Center of Marketing Research at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, published a study that showed more than 20% of colleges and universities search social networks for their admissions candidates” (Fodeman). This is becoming a part of the admissions process, but it is unfair. Searching someone’s Facebook to determine his or her admissions eligibility is wrong and a privacy invasion. As long as a student has fulfilled the school’s requirements and done well in school, why should it matter what their personal lives are like? In the time before Facebook, this would be like a school sending someone to secretly follow a potential student and see what he or she does in their
Facebook users are not generally concerned about their privacy and security. They are publishing lots of sensitive personal information on Facebook. Many users share these kind of information for impression. Such information can lead user to become victim of identity theft. Facebook users share personal information everyday by knowingly or unknowingly. Some users they share their every bits of life on Facebook. Users express themse...
As college students and adults prepare for the real world, people are constantly faced with how to prepare for interviews and the hiring process with jobs. One factor of that is the gray area that is the idea of social media and networking helping to assist with the hiring process. Technology has become a privacy and employment issue that future employees face. When it comes to employment companies a have no boundaries and employers need to realize that social media should be used only for non-bias practices and not employment decisions based on someone’s Facebook post. Topic: How Privacy and Employment Laws effect Social Media changing the Hiring Process.
With more than 500 million active users, the site is a warehouse of personal information. Personal profiles allow users to provide information about their name, age, hometown, relationship status, activities, job, school, and more. They can connect with the others’ profiles and become ”friends”. Combined with a profile picture, you can pretty much learn anything you want to know about somebody over Facebook (should they choose to provide the information). However, what many users fail to realize is that in most cases this information is not only available to their “friends”. Though users can change their privacy settings to limit with whom their profile information is shared, the site gathers and stores more than most of us want to acknowledge. For instance, the Facebook “Like” butto...
Where does it go? Who needs it? What do you need it for? I feel if we start asking theses question’s and make them answer them then we could stop having to put that personal information into how Facebook and other social medias. “Teens are increasingly sharing personal information on social media sites, a trend that is likely driven by the evolution of the platforms teens use as well as changing norms around sharing. A typical teen’s Myspace profile from 2006 was quite different in form and function from the 2006 version of Facebook as well as the Facebook profiles that have become a hallmark of teenage life today. For the five different types of personal information that we measured in both 2006 and 2012, each is significantly more likely to be shared by teen social media users on the profile they use most often.” (http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/05/21/teens-social-media-and-privacy/) I can remember when I first made a Myspace all I need to enter in was my email, password, and your birthday, now you need that and phone number, and the last 4 of your social and that should not be needed for me to connect with my friends and family over social