<p>A few months ago a recruiter for a local city college came by my school and took questions and later gave out his email to those he could not get to. So I emailed him a few questions about the honors program etc. However, the email I emailed him with is the email I used for my old FB---one I deleted. Is it possible he typed my email into FB and found my profile? Would it violate any laws since it was a public college?</p>
<p>note: when I emailed him, the FB was still on</p>
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<p>For him to view public information about you? No. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy when you’re in public.</p>
<p>Furthermore, if you had your FB set so that information you thought was private was actually open to the whole world, that’s your problem and nobody else’s. And if you put information or photos on your FB that you wouldn’t want your grandmother, or a prospective employer, or a college admissions officer to see, then that wasn’t a very good plan.</p>
<p>Of course, there is also the possibility that your FB friends have themselves posted information about you or photos of you that you wouldn’t want to become public. The best way to prevent this is not behave badly in the first place. Because once you email something to somebody or allow somebody to take a photo of you, you have no control over what will happen to it.</p>
<p>Now, do I think some college representative actually took the time to go look you up on FB just because you emailed him? No, I don’t.</p>
<p>I am merely guessing, but I think your biggest reason to worry is that you do things in public that you wouldn’t want to become widely known.</p>
<p>OK. I’m finished. Anybody else want a turn with this soapbox?</p>
<p>No but there are laws on what employers are allowed to know. An employer cannot just google your name because that could lead to knowing religious status, and other answers to questions that are not allowed to be asked during the interview process. I think the example that’s been used is the employer checks FB and finds out the applicant is pregnant. That will prejudice his decision and therefore he was never allowed to look at it (that’s why you need to hire a background check company). Does this apply to adcoms?</p>
<p>My FB was set to maximum privacy.</p>
<p>And I don’t know if what I posted was that bad. A lot of political arguments took place, mostly about divisive issues (like the Middle East, Health care etc.). And I can’t say for sure that I have not called anyone a name in frustration. No drugs or anything like that</p>
<p>Oh…you were arguing about politics, and you might have called somebody a dumb**s? Not to worry!</p>
<p>For the record, though, I’m not sure there are laws that keep an employer or college from Googling you and learning what’s publicly available to know. See this link.</p>
<p>[Google</a> search by employer not illegal, say judges](<a href=“Google search by employer not illegal, say judges | Ars Technica”>Google search by employer not illegal, say judges | Ars Technica)</p>
<p>And note this quote from the next source linked:
[Should</a> Employers ‘Google’ Applicants?](<a href=“http://www.irmi.com/expert/articles/2009/siegel02-employment-practices-liability.aspx]Should”>http://www.irmi.com/expert/articles/2009/siegel02-employment-practices-liability.aspx)</p>
<p>I agree that if an employer learns from your Facebook page that you’re a member of a protected class (e.g., you’re gay, or you’re pregnant), they can’t make a job determination based on that information. (Good luck proving that this was the basis for their decision, though.) But if they learn from your Facebook that you have bad judgment? “Fools” are not a protected class, as far as I know.</p>
<p>yes something like that lol. And most of the time I was arguing with friends and we usually laughed about it the next day. I also used the term “Teabagers” to refer to a certain group of people. But I didn’t say I was going to kill anyone or anything like that.</p>