What would you do if an employer asked you for the password of your social network to see what you do online?

That a complete invasion of privacy. What, should I give them my house key as well? If they’re going to ask for my password, they should give me their passwords to their social networking websites so I can make sure my employer is safe and a good person too. This is why they have background checks! I heard about this earlier this morning and I think it’s so wrong. I have nothing to hide on my Facebook, I just don’t believe this is right at all.

First off, I would refuse to give my login information. Secondly, I am careful to separate my professional and private on-line life. . I only use my real name for professional correspondence and for everything else I use pseudonyms. Even if I gave login information for my professional page they would only find the most mundane of things under my real name. This isn’t perfect. I’ve had people piece together bits of pieces of information from posts and figure out who I was. I was rather surprised when friend I hadn’t seen in years asked me if I was so-and-so on slashdot. I asked him how he figured it out and he managed to identify me from my comments about the weather, my areas of expertise, political leanings, my age from events I remembered, the industry I was in etc. With enough random bits of information he narrowed it down far enough to recognize me. With enough time and energy I’m sure an investigator could track down every one of my accounts and activities but I don’t intend to make it easy.

that is wrong.i dont think they can force you to do it…now i guess its ok if they go and look you up because everyone can do that(thats why you can set privacy settings) i think colleges and company will actually go and look at your FB before they hire you.but they wont ask you for your password that is just wrong