Chapter 2 "Could Your Facebook Profile Throw a Wrench in Your Future?"

I believe is very unprofessional for employers to do background checks from Facebook. Looking at someones Facebook can sometimes give you false information. We live in a generation where technology unfortunately is getting ahead of us. Making it easier for people to hack accounts, create fake profiles about people and even have total access to their social media. Anything that goes up on the internet its not always accurate, employers should keep in mind that Facebook is not a good source to grab background information about students. However students should also keep in mind that Facebook is a public site and should consider the type of information they want to share before making it public. It still doesn’t give the right for employers to go snooping in someone Facebook account. I believe Facebook and this other social media were not made for background researches for jobs, people do have lives and should be respected. “ It seems to me that people who look at sites such as Facebook in order to, in effect, spy on students are taking advantage of the internet in a way that’s not all that different from the way that sexual predators exploit” said Nancy Bauer. In which I totally agree, in this case theres no difference between a sexual predator and a employer. Both are looking for information that would somehow benefit them. Employers cant just go based off or assumed something from a picture or a comment. You need to give people a chance before judging, you never know what they can bring to your table.