# Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 20, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/employers-ask-job-seekers-for-facebook-passwords/263087 "2012-03-20T18:31:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/employers-ask-job-seekers-for-facebook-passwords/263087/11 "2012-03-21T07:53:02Z")
> [@FS: TurboLogic Performance MBC priced to sell](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-turbologic-performance-mbc-priced-to-sell/47139/9): > > You guys realize that it’s nothing illegal right? They can ask you to do anything, you are VOLUNTEERING to apply to that job. Don’t like their rules then don’t apply. > > Granted this is extreme and many ways of beating this. Not having a profile or even given them a password and then changing it right after for one, but it’s not less crazy than credit checks and background. > > Only border line illegal thing is them being able to find information that is otherwise illegal to ask directly - marital status, religion etc that you may have listed on Facebook. > > On the other hand, it’s against FB’s terms of agreement to give out your login information to ANYONE. > > Lots of views and opinions on this matter. No one said it was illegal in here While I am all for employers looking up candidates, asking someone for their email address and password is just ridiculous. Most people from personal experience share the same password with their facebook as they do with the email thats used to login to facebook. The ammount of privacy invasion that can occur from handing over this information is just insane. Not only that you’re not just giving someone the ability to look at your wall or posts, they can go through you’re messages, photos everything, that is a huge privacy violation in my opinion. The simple and easy way to do this would simply have a prerequisite when you apply that says something along the lines of “We do thorough background checks to ensure the integrity of the employees working for us and representing our company, we ask that if it is not already, please make your social networking profiles public or be prepared to login to your profile for us so that we may better screen candidates and speed up the process” Sure may cause a lot of people to say fuck this and not even bother, but chances are those people would have said no anyways. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/employers-ask-job-seekers-for-facebook-passwords/263087)._