Even if it meant getting a job?
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/newsworldnation/954763-227/employers-ask-job-seekers-for-facebook-passwords.html
SEATTLE – When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So, he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.
Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to search for his Facebook page. But she couldn’t see his private profile. She turned back and asked him to hand over his login information.
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My privacy means my dang business from 5pm to 9am.
Matthew
That said...no, I would not hand over my password to get a job. Just like I wouldn't allow him or her to come rummage through my house or my trash can. It's all my personal business. Not only that but they'd be seeing things that friends and family have posted to me...which invades their privacy as well.
In addition to being a clear invasion of privacy, giving out one's login information is a violation of FB's own terms of use. An employer who makes such a coercive request is essentially asking a person to commit an act that could be grounds for termination (of that individual's FB account that is).
If a prospective employer asked me to furnish my Facebook password during an interview process, I would politely respond, "I would be unable to comply with such a request, for to do so would be a direct violation of the terms of use I have already agreed to. As a person of integrity, I cannot in good conscience willfully commit such a violation. However, if you feel my Facebook posts are a valuable representation of character, I am willing to allow one of your recruiters access to my Facebook page as long as the site is viewed entirely in my presence, on my computer, and I am the one logging in and out." That last stipulation is more than generous and I wouldn't hold it against anyone if they felt access, monitored or otherwise, is unwarranted.
Also I really couldn't if they asked since I have my crap set to auto log me in.
and a sheriff of a nearby county in the past year has been asking, or demanding, recruits (12 so far, and all have passed this facebook test) to do this.
That's what I have done. Got one for just my family. Mainly cause I don't want to deal with the headaches from having 5 preachers on one side of the family. Then I have another account that is for everyone else.
Actually, the biggest reason I don't like that idea is because I wouldn't want to work for a company that asked me to do this. Maybe it might be a moral evaluation test and the best thing you can do is politely refuse.
That's fair, right?
(Left Facebook a while back, anyway, so there is nothing there, but this is kinda insane!)
At least, if I can't answer "no".