<p>I can give them my facebook information if they can tell me the reason why they need to know my facebook account, if they just want to do some background check then its ok but if its not, then I think I don’t have any reason to give my facebook information to them besides all the personal information they need is already in my resume.</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem to have occured to anyone that perhap the employer is testing the applicant. If you would give up your password to fb to a complete stranger who you perceive has some power over you, what of the employer’s would you give up? Would their usernames and passwords be safe with you or are you likely to give them up to another person who claims to really need them! The best response would be to simply say, that is private, it’s against fb’s policys and I would no more give up my privete information than I would give up your private information. Employer’s want to know their company secrets are safe.</p>
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<p>I have considered that possibility…but reasonably intelligent employers have better ways of gauging whether someone is discreet and good about maintaining client/company confidentiality or not. Asking for someone’s FB passwords is at best…an extremely hamfisted way of doing so at best…and an idiotic way of risking huge potential liabilities.</p>
<p>While a lot of pesonal information is readily available online, the legal issue for employers when doing interviews is that certain types of information cannot be used as a basis for hiring/not hiring someone. That is the main reason it is inappropriate to ask to review someone’s Facebook account as part of any legitimate job interview (regardless of who does the logging in).</p>