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Originally Posted by Livia

I take it from all you've said that you're not actually an employer, and haven't been for that many job interviews recently.

I don't know anything about getting people to hack into accounts to get information. That's not what we're discussing here and it is, as far as I know, illegal.

It's an employers market. If an employer has to choose between a load of applicants then those applicants will be judged on a whole host of things: what they wear, what they say, their personal grooming, how they present themselves, how they sit in the in interview, eye contact, what's on their CV... and what's publicly available to view on their Facebook page.

If you were going to pay someone to work for you, I think you'd probably want to employ someone who is most likely to turn up on Monday morning and not have the rest of the staff pick up the slack when they're inevitably too hung over to come to work. That would be my assumption if there were lots of drunken pictures and silly comments available for the whole world to access. If you're going to demand freedom of speech, don't expect not to be judged on it.

Not entirely sure what relevance that has to my argument or indeed how it would devalue it in any way regardless of the answer.

And again, yet more assumptions. Just because someone goes out at the weekend and gets absolutely batfaced it does not necessarily have any correlation with their work related performance. People are perfectly able to separate the two and have been doing for many years, just because social networking sites have now come along and given employers yet another avenue by which to judge, outcast and make assumptions on you that doesn't suddenly mean that someone can't have wild weekends yet be Employee of the Month. It's all assumptions and it's grossly unfair.

If and when an employee turned up to work hungover, drunk, or their performance began to slip, then perhaps their personal life could be brought to task and disciplinary action could be handed out, just as before. Second-guessing what potential employees might do, or sacking people for having a good time on their weekend off is just of order.

Originally Posted by Omah

huffingtonpost.co.uk - January 25, 2013



With so many applicants for jobs, posting any of the above (even with privacy control) is foolhardy in the extreme.

Don't you just love youth unemployment and things which make it worse