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Strangler Lewis · 12-01-2011, 11:45 AM

The old lawyer's saying is never say anything to anyone you would not want to see repeated in court. Your Facebook page is just what you choose to expose to the world about yourself. If your prospective employer would be free to interview everyone you ever spoke to in order to ask them what stupid or potentially unprofessional thing you did, why shouldn't it get to go beyond your handpicked references to a reliable source like a Facebook page. Whether it's legal or appropriate for companies to make decisions based on how employees conduct their private lives is, of course, a separate question from wanting a reasonably accurate source of information.

12-01-2011, 11:45 AM	#11
Strangler Lewis Doing The Job Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In a state Posts: 3,956	The old lawyer's saying is never say anything to anyone you would not want to see repeated in court. Your Facebook page is just what you choose to expose to the world about yourself. If your prospective employer would be free to interview everyone you ever spoke to in order to ask them what stupid or potentially unprofessional thing you did, why shouldn't it get to go beyond your handpicked references to a reliable source like a Facebook page. Whether it's legal or appropriate for companies to make decisions based on how employees conduct their private lives is, of course, a separate question from wanting a reasonably accurate source of information. __________________ Live now-pay later. Diner's Club!
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