Facebook Password Debate Stirs Deep Social Fears
Facebook, and twitter are among the Internet most popular
social networking sites that link friends together, share photos, apps, and
more. Almost everyone I know has either a Facebook, or a twitter, and uses it
just to connect to their friends. These sites were simply created as profile
where you can feel free to talk to friends, and update pictures, but recently
this originally harmless site, is becoming less safe and more dangerous. In this
article, it talks about the new idea that companies are asking people to hand
over their Facebook credentials for them to look at whatever they feel
necessary. Facebook can portray what type of person you are, but I only believe
that to an extent. I disagree completely with the idea of giving your password
to someone. Like they described in the article, it’s just like handing over the
key to our house. Within our homes we keep personal things that you would never
let strangers feel free to look at, just like Facebook. I know for myself I am
a big user of Facebook instant messaging with my friends, and I wouldn’t like
it, if people were reading my conversations about my personal life. There is also a difference between who you
are at work, and who you are at home. People keep it professional in a work environment;
a company just because of their Facebook shouldn’t judge people then the company
might be missing out of a hard working employer. Also, with the newest version
of Facebook, called timeline it allows people to search back to specific dates
or things, and it shows almost everything that has ever been shown on your own
profile. What if there was comments or picture of things we did when we were
younger? The past things on Facebook should not be a part of anything to do
with getting this job. Companies are going to snoop no matter what on Facebook’s,
but giving the password is far too much.
Hopefully not too many companies begin to ask their prospective
employers for this, because it is a violation of privacy, and should not be
asked.
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