Honestly I wouldn't even bother with Facebook anymore. The only useful aspect for a traveling airline pilot is using the check in feature on longer overnights to see if any friends/colleagues chime in nearby.

Several years ago (like 10) in college, Facebook used to be this amazing place to share all of your experiences of drunken debauchery and other weekend tomfoolery in a somewhat private environment that wasn't taken too seriously. But those days are long gone. Over the years it went public and has devolved into a wasteland of click bait time wasting crap, odd political/philosophical posts from acquaintances you don't really care to know on that level, and people trying to desperately sell ridiculous makeup/skin products. The only reason I still have one is to validate my bumble account.

To the OP: I would change my name to not reflect my full name and make everything private as you can. If for some crazy reason an airline asked about it during an interview I would just tell them I occasionally check it to keep up with family pictures and funny animal memes.

 

Regardless of your privacy settings, Facebook will turn over everything to another fortune 500 company advertising partner, including your private messages, and browsing history. They deny this is happening, but they are lying. Company's are not going to pay millions to Facebook for its garbage advertising platform, if it didn't have perks.

 

I’ve decided this year to reduce or totally abandon social media, maybe just keep FB to family and close friends/work groups.

 

Delete the inflammatory stuff.
Lock down the privacy settings.
STOP making religious and political posts. All they do is annoy people anyway!

 

Dude, did you just say tomfoolery?

 

He is working up to "Shenanigans"

 

Does anyone know if deactivating your account removes posts from other pages?

 

I agree that THE MAN has it in for us, but who would ever be hired if this were true? I cleaned mine up to the best of my ability before my interview, but if FB and big companies were in on some grand scheme then they'd have found so much garbage on me I wouldn't be hired by Wal-Mart let alone a major airline.

Pretty much everybody has done stuff (and to a lesser extent then posted it on social media) they'd rather not discuss during a job interview, it's called being human. While I agree SM is pretty much a complete waste of life and we'd be significantly better off without it, I don't think today's applicants need to be too worried about their private posts if for no other reason that most people are in the same boat.

Be responsible, look at your SM from the perspective of a potential employer. Clean it up and privatize, and most applicants can move on to worry about more important things.

 

oh, so you're a racist.

thanks for letting us know! I just find it funny how racist people are fine with being ignorant in "private" but then want to run and hide whenever spotlight is shined on them.

 

Eff off millennial. How’d you glean that from his post? Sam Kinison was hysterical by the way. Weenie.