Facebook Password Is Fair Game Summary

In Alfred Edmond Jr’s “Why Asking for a Job Applicant’s Facebook Password Is Fair Game”, Edmond explains his reasoning behind why he thinks that employers should be able to ask for the social media passwords for the applicant’s accounts. Alfred generally makes a strong case that if you post anything to social media that whatever you post is expected to be public and, therefore, should made accessible to the employer, however some of his points fall apart under scrutiny, weakening his argument.

Edmond’s tone was mostly a casual tone, addressing the reading as he would in a sort of business casual setting. It was effective in getting me to sympathize with his points and while still being able to take him seriously. The author mostly used an appeal to emotion, with some appeals to logic. His approach works pretty well, he uses the appeals to emotion to emphasize if you are going to share a post to the world then why not allow your potential employers to see it as well.

Edmond starts off strong by acknowledging that while he would have consenting to giving a company the password to his Facebook profile that he thinks that there are some fields that he believes that asking for the

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