(March 30, 2012 at 6:17 am)Welsh cake Wrote: What you're doing is as futile as trying to take a dump in a busy town centre and expecting no one to look.
So not true. Facebook is as private as you want it to be. For instance, my personal account only has actual friends as "friends". Only friends can see my posts (not even friends of friends), and only friends can find / view my profile. A search for my name on Facebook will not return my personal account, but rather my "public" business profile.
Asking for your Facebook password is tantamount to asking for you to strap a webcam to your head when you hang out with friends, record everything you say and do with them, and then hand it over to the interviewer to watch. It is a complete invasion of privacy. If a company wants to look at my Facebook account, they can look at my public feed (though as I've already pointed out, I don't have one on my main account). I will never "friend" my boss on my non-business account unless we actually are friends. There is only one person I work with who is a friend on my main Facebook account, and that is because we go drinking every other weekend or so, and I have made a load more friends through his friends.
What you say publicly should matter in a job interview; what you say privately should not. We are all entitled to our own private opinions, shared between close friends, etc. A business has no right to invade your privacy in this manner.
