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Is It Okay for Your Boss to Look at Your Facebook Profile?

by Anthony Marek on May 19, 2008 at 11:09 AM


About half of the participants of a recent ZINC Research poll said they'd be fine with their employers peeking over their shoulder at their Facebook profiles, and a bit less felt comfortable making their profiles available to prospective employers along with their resumes.

These figures are a far cry from the days where membership to "thefacebook.com" was restricted to students of a handful of American universities (Harvard being the first). Many employers - among them technology companies, consulting firms, banks, and non-profits - have created networks of their own, which employees join by adding their work e-mail addresses to their Facebook account.

In its original heyday, Facebook was a sort of sanctuary where carefree college-goers posted pictures of themselves engaged in questionable acts, knowing that only their peers had direct access to the stuff. The bolder ones even posted evidence of crimes they had committed. Now that anyone can join, the pollsters assume, the site sees more self-censoring. Now, the poll was conducted with Canadians, but the trend is just the same in the US.

Given that Facebook profiles have had a hand in getting a few people fired, the trend is only natural.

This, of course, stinks for carefree college students, who have, no doubt, found new social networks to post their Spring Break pictures. [Source: Reuters]


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