Originally Posted by
sealandair
They look at your social media profiles? How do they do that and what are they looking for?
They look at any of the common social medias, including the big pilot forums.
Whether they can see anything depends on whether your accounts are locked down (ie access only to friends/family), and how anonymous your forum accounts are.
If your name is john doe, your email account on airlineapps is john.doe@ google.com and your APC user ID is johndoe, then they are going to read every post you ever made on APC (jetcrareers, flightinfo, baseops, etc). Or at least enough posts to get a flavor for your temperament.
What they are looking for on social media is any outrageous posting or pics. Anything that reflects poorly on your temperament, or any pics which they would not want in the media after an accident. You holding a beer at a family BBQ, maybe OK. Frat-boy hijinks involving beer bongs, probably not good. Edgy politics or activism, maybe not good. ANY reference to drugs, or ANY images involving drugs or paraphernalia... game over. All of this applies to stuff posted by other people, even without your knowledge.
This applies to majors, not regionals, although regionals with AA flow presumably use major airline standards.