Call the supreme court, complain that your constitutional right to privacy is being violated! I Got Rights!

Oh wait... that doesn't exist.

There are some statutory protections but (similar to the 1st. Amendment) those protect your from the government, not from potential employers.

The precedent is that employers can do all the research on you which they like (some state laws set limits on consideration of things like criminal records and bankruptcy). Looking at social media falls under that by default.

This is actually just another example of technology getting way far out ahead of of legal and cultural systems. You think that's bad, do know what Big Data knows (and shares) about you? And what they hope to do with that data? Siri will know what you want without you even asking...

 

There is no expectation of privacy for anything online. Especially social media stuff.

There are data aggregators like Experian or equifax which can spot all these accounts. And everything you ever post is archived. I mean everything.

I don’t do a lot of social media stuff. Who cares what I ate? Or what I got my cat for Christmas???

In general, it’s a good idea to avoid anything controversial on FB. You are just gonna **** off a bunch of your friends with stupid stuff you never would discuss in person. What’s the point?

 

Sorry, I should have made my previous post more clear....

While there is no question that this is legal according to the letter of the law, doesn't make it the RIGHT thing to do.

There are a lot of actions that are not against the law, but are still wrong. I mean, if I were to talk smack about your kids, that's certainly not against the law, but I sure as hell know you would not take kindly to it, and rightfully so.

Just to clarify, because I think I left this ambiguous in my previous post.....

I have no problem with any employer searching for my presence online......what I DO take issue with on the other hand is said employers asking to "friend" you on social media as a condition of being considered for employment.

Again while that is certainly not illegal, myself and I'm sure many many others think it's absolutely morally wrong and inappropriate etiquette.

 

Your post was fine, I was trying to highlight the underlying issue... tech has outpaced the legal system, and the cultural system.

But if you're looking for ethical behavior from employers, you may be in the wrong industry.

 

The sad thing is that these days, the airlines are probably the most ethical of employers.

 

Ethical is a really wide playing field. I would guess that most of what we call "ethical treatment" by airlines is because of a rigorously enforced PWA. Airlines are no different than any other major corporation, with the major exception of an educated work force that stands united.

Jet Blue is a perfect example. Nice product, good reputation with passengers, full of blue juice. They seem to think their stuff doesn't stink and they treated their pilots so poorly that they decided to unionize.

 

All I know is...the more of you bozos that rip Delta Pilot Recruitings Facebook page a new one for not giving you a ticket to the career fair...the better for me!!!

 

Wow...

People actually do that??

(Wait. It’s FB..... I’m not too surprised by anything I see there.)

 

Got lost after page 5. Just wanted to mention my Facebook, Twitter,and Instagram are all of a picture of me due to a bet I lost last year. Damn you Cowboys! We did it in watts instead of Harlem as I live our west now. It was close to the opening scene of Die Hard w Vengeance. Start class at a major next month.

 

That is not true at all.

Correct.

I'd also add to watch what you post at APC. The extremist nutjobs here expose themselves pretty quickly, and would be not difficult to see them having difficulty interacting with a broad segment of society as required in many jobs (see 'triggered' posts above. )

In my field there is the same concerns - nobody will go through your pages to see if you had a beer at age 20.5, but if you continually post crap about ANY group of people or extremist 'political' opinions on either side, you are setting yourself up to be at an extreme disadvantage, and rightly so.

Or, just don't believe that crap to begin with and be a decent person. If you can stand by your posts in public, you have little to worry about.