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Social Networks affecting Job?

Posted by 5Haley on September 8, 2009 at 9:59pm in Mr Bruns 360 Message Board

Usually when we are interviewing for a job they look at what experience you have, how many years, what schools you've attended, but now they are looking at your social network (Facebook, Myspace, etc.) What if you weren't accepted at a job for what is on your site. As in innapropriate pictures, how you speak to others etc..... What do you think? Is it okay or unfair?

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5Jena October 5, 2009 at 11:52am

woah thats unfair for sure hahaha..i'd be offended..but i dont have anything really innapropriate so i think that facebook etc is way to personal for them to look at for job interveiws.
5Max October 5, 2009 at 11:48am

A person shouldn't get or not get the job because of what they have on there facebook or myspace. Everyone gets a little crazy at times and makes mistakes. They should get the job because of how well they do the job.
5Bree October 5, 2009 at 10:56am

I think that would be really unfair because whats on your page is your business not your jobs. Just because of the things you have on your myspace or facebook doesnt mean thats how you act if you have a job. I think its fine if they look at your schools and everything but not your page.
5Erin September 28, 2009 at 11:36am

I think its unfair, because just because your page says something doesnt mean you act like that, it might not actually be your website either, someone could have made it and said it was you
5Steph September 13, 2009 at 4:25pm

I think it is a fine thing to do. If I was looking for someone to hire I would want to know their history and how they act outside of the job they would be applying for.
3Michyla September 13, 2009 at 4:11pm

I think it is unfair to have people looking at your facebook or myspace to see whether or not you would get the job or not. I think that is personal stuff and it would be none of there business. But, if they were to look at my facebook and myspace I'm sure they wouldn't find anything that they didn't like, so I'm not to worried out it.
8Jessica September 13, 2009 at 2:16pm

wow. this is surprising. i think it seems a bit unfair, because your soial network has nothing to do with your job, and shouldnt effect it. depening on the jb i gues it would ocassionally be ok some jobs want you to act approiatly to represent their business so that could be why too.
3payton September 13, 2009 at 2:16pm

I think thats going a litle bit to far but then again a social network does say a lot about a person.
4Drea September 13, 2009 at 1:00pm

well I wouldn't want to hire employees that put inappropriate pictures on their websites. Because if they put pictures like that on their website, they clearly aren't very smart or have little to no common sense.
4jenna September 11, 2009 at 2:40pm

Haha, i think that's unfair.. Like really? Come on, its someones personal life.