There is no arguing that most of today’s teenagers, young adults and even older adults use Facebook. Facebook started out just for young people but as it got more popular it branched out other age groups. Many people share information about themselves on Facebook, maybe a bit too much. Employers and colleges are looking and young people's Facebook pages to conduct a discreet background check. What they find isn’t always good. Young people put things on Facebook for their friends to see not their future boss. A picture of you doing something illegal or a post on your wall can make an employer not hire you.
Now employers are doing nothing wrong by doing this either. Facebook is a public network and anyone with an account could access one’s information. I think what they are doing is perfectly fine too. Jobs are hard to come by these days and employers want to know as much about you as possible. Employers are just using all the resources available to them to help them make the best decision.
“It’s a personality test. What you have on sites like Facebook is just another way the company can do a behavior analysis on you (Dince).” This is why I always make sure that my Profile has nothing bad on it that could potentially hurt me in the future. If young people don’t want employers seeing what they posting, then they should increase their privacy on their account so other people can’t see what they are posting. They should also be careful that if the “Friend” their boss they can see everything that they post. Students just have to accept that this is a fact of life and if they want to post other stuff then they should find another social media outlet to do that.
I may have to disagree, I have no problem with people going through my Facebook or other social accounts but I don't feel it’s fair for a future employer, to judge you based on your social media accounts. So let’s say you are applying for a job and your employer loves animals and is against hunting. If I was to apply to this job he would stalk my accounts and find out I am a constant user of my second amendment. So now before I even got a chance I am out of the job before I even got a chance to show my skills. Even though me and my boss have differences our differences would not have anything to do with or line of work, so it would not affect our business relationship, but on the other hand if someone Is posting pictures of them drinking large amounts all the time or doing something that isn’t right then I guess it could be liable for the employer to not chose this person based of those facts
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