I'll need your facebook password.

[JoeSparky]

You just gave me a flash of brilliance...
This whole thing is not about prying into the private lives of prospective employees,
it's to see who holds to a contract, their values, & can keep their mouth shut in the face of pressure.
THOSE are the people who get hired because the company knows they won't divulge company secrets.

So when asked to give up your password, say: "No thanks, I want this job. I know that if I show myself to have no regard for the law, contractual obligations, or morals the company wouldn't want to hire me, and by giving my password I'd be doing all 3. Besides, would you want to work with someone who can be pressured to divulge company secrets?"

Though the argument about it being an end run around a company not being allowed to ask certain information is a good one too. "I'll think about letting you look at my account as soon as I've removed all information pertaining to things it's illegal for the company to ask during an interview, such as religion, children, sexuality, etc.."

The ACLU is getting involved, so this practice might be quashed quickly.
They do have their uses.

Basically, why would you give any random stranger (and that's what the interviewer is) access to your private life? Would you hand over a house key & let him/her drop by whenever it's convenient for them, to rummage through your mail, photo albums, bookshelf...?

Believe it or not but I've been thinking in this same way on this since I first read the thread... but I HATE making posts via my phone as its keyboard is a utter joke. Good Job! They are just doing a test to see if you are actually trustworthy... and declining to give them your password IS THE BEST RESPONSE TO GIVE!

 

[GhostOfJefferson]

Again, they're not taking your password or using your login. They're sitting next to you when you login.

And, again, this is not some hypothetical discussion. This is happening now. Specious arguments about FB TOS or "my dog ate my FB account" won't cut it.

They're asking you to log on, *on their network*. Corporate networks track everything, including logons. Whether you write the password/id on paper, or type it in, either way you've given them the ID/password. All they have to do if they give you the job is go to the logs of that day and extract your ID/Password. It's a non-starter, and a violation of the FB TOS.

 

[BurgerBoy]

I wouldn't want to work for them if they want to invade my personal life.

 

[Herr Heckler Koch]

Thank GoODness for McBurger Hut.

 

[KYKevin]

Hold on. I am still looking for my password. Chrome stored it so I would not have to remember it. Maybe I should just take my entire computer in to my next job interview and hook it up. I should have bought a laptop.

(sigh) Life was easier before computers.

 

[Coltman151]

Best post in the thread.