No one is going in and reading your private messages on Facebook haha! That’s a ridiculous breach of privacy which is on a whole other level beyond employment checks. Lol

If we apply common sense, we would reach the conclusion that if Facebook was selling that type of access, a scandal would have erupted by now due to a leak somewhere, and Facebook would lose all sorts of business. Nah, the truth is that they need you, they need us to be wasting our time there. If they break that pact, someone else will rise up and replace them, and they don’t want that which is why you constantly see them tweaking their privacy settings and providing little tutorials for us on how to keep our accounts secure. Lol

Employers at most can see what your friends can see. That’s it.

Also, say if you follow certain pages and write comments on such pages, that remains public, this is for any public page, so if you lose your marbles and write an angry post on the Wal-Mart page, well that can pop up in the future, lol. Or if a friend of yours has their profile set to public, any comment you do on his page and any photos he puts up of you are also fair game.

A good tip to avoid anyone finding you is to use a different email for your Facebook login than the one you use for your resume and job applications. It might also be a good idea not to list your current city. Also, on the Facebook page, on the security tab, you can set it so that no one can find you via your email or phone number. On this tab you can also opt out of search engines linking to your profile. This is of course if your employer doesn’t straight out ask for your social media info. I’ve had this happen on non aviation related jobs, and I don’t know about the airlines since I’m just starting out.

Anyways, I myself I’m not super active on social media but as I’m late 20s I do post a few photos here and there of my travels and hobbies since for my generation it’s very strange when you have no social media presence...what a strange generation. Lol

Best of luck!