# Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/employers-ask-job-seekers-for-facebook-passwords/263087/19 "2012-03-21T09:22:42Z")

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> [@Who Can build honda motors around here?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-can-build-honda-motors-around-here/48753/2):
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> how is age illegal to find,ask,get for an interview?
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> You provide your SSN for the background check… birthdate is right at the top of those reports.
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> I agree with the reason you are looking for the job… but the last person I want to be working for is someone that feels they need to know why there is a picture of me chugging a beer at a family bbq with my father for lulz…
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> Work to live, dont live to work. Plenty of fish in the sea for employment opportunities.

Your Facebook can say a lot about your character and then how you portray yourself in an interview. I don’t blame employers one bit for seeking out social networks people belong to.

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