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VonKleist:
People who are not smart enough to hide their opinions are probably not smart enough to work for you.
Or something along those lines is what a lot of employers are thinking.
And rightly so.
On the other hand, employees who get fired over this stuff and employers who care about it are both dicks and probably deserve each other.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Welu on 05 Nov 2012, 08:08 ---I recently cleared my Facebook list from near 300ish to 160ish. I did it over the process of a couple of weeks, not because I was being sneaky but because Facebook wouldn't load all of the people in the list until some were deleted. Now it is mainly coworkers, friends, family, internet friends and friends of friends I want to get to know better. Other than that it's people who I think would notice their friend count go down and if they realized it was me, would be genuinely angry with me.
I also try to only post things I wouldn't mind saying to my family or family but there isn't much I'd mind saying to them any way.
--- End quote ---
I have gotten a few comments from friends about the fact that I have 29 friends on my facebook. I usually counter by saying that I know everyone on my friends list and that I know each and every single one of them, could they say the same? The fact is that the vast majority of my friends aren't on facebook anyway.
Lines:
Re: employer thing - Before this, employers had no good way to access someone's "personal" life, so why should they be allowed to do it now? I hate it. Even if you make everything private, there's still ways to get in and see things you don't want those people to see. Hooray for having your life online and not being able to do much about it!
I should just delete my account. I've been thinking about it for a while, but parts of it are just so convenient...
Thrillho:
I agree that it's bullshit that employers now try to find you on Facebook and judge you on that basis. It should be irrelevant. At the same time, employers do it anyway, so my profile is pretty private, my display picture is never anything too crazy, and my statuses are never anything too insane.
pwhodges:
If I found that my employer was looking at my Facebook (not that there's much there), I would walk out. I understand that this option is not practical for many people.
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