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[disreputablegeeks]

4. don't sign up with facebook to begin with.
5. tell your prospective employer
to go f*** themselves

This post has been edited by disreputablegeeks: 24 March 2012 - 09:18 AM

[disreputablegeeks]

!!

This post has been edited by disreputablegeeks: 24 March 2012 - 09:19 AM

[GeorgeMathias]

I'll be linking by bank account to facebook soon. To get information on my account. In this case how can one give facebook login details to companies. As the people who take it are the general public and can be miss used by anyone.

This is madness.

[GregClapp]

"Polite Facebook users don’t push their political agendas onto their friends."

Bulls**t. FB is the single best place online for civil political debate because the flamers and trolls can't hide behind pseudonyms or anonymous profiles. You're talking to your friends, and you name is on it, so it enforces a level of civility. If your friends cant't respect your views in the real world, they're not really your friends, and they're probably not going to friend you on FB either.

[DebbieHanrahan]

So FB is sucking back and not taking a stand against business. It's coericion not consent. It opens business up to suspension of bank fraud. If anything happens to you personally, economically, etc then the only other person that had your password was xyz business then they are open to be suspects in a crime. Best to dump FB now!

[BobMasterson]

First of all, FB is a place of communication with your friends and acquaintances. Second of all, there is a such little topic as free speech. If I want to express my political views I should be able to. Having been asked by a prospective employer for your fb password is like them giving you a microphone and a recorder to record your conversations with your friends.
THey should be ashamed of themselves, and we do not live in Orwell's 1984

[BobMasterson]

On the side note - open a face fb account and keep it kosher to disclose it to anyone. Hell, you can make it public.

[BobMasterson]

I meant fake, not face. Open a fake fb account

[Kahuna]

GregClapp, on 24 March 2012 - 09:26 AM, said:

"Polite Facebook users don’t push their political agendas onto their friends."

Bulls**t. FB is the single best place online for civil political debate because the flamers and trolls can't hide behind pseudonyms or anonymous profiles. You're talking to your friends, and you name is on it, so it enforces a level of civility. If your friends cant't respect your views in the real world, they're not really your friends, and they're probably not going to friend you on FB either.

Bullcr^p. I've got a FB account with a fictitious name. It's the name of a storybook character and my _real_ friends are in on the joke. As for the rest of FB muppets, who cares?

[drstevea]

[quote name='GregClapp' timestamp='1332609983' post='596759']
"Polite Facebook users don’t push their political agendas onto their friends."

Yeah, but that's not what this guy is saying. He's saying you can't have any real communication with anyone about political issues on Facebook, because whatever your opinion, and no matter how civil your expression, there will be potential employers who will not like your opinion, and hence you may lose a job opportunity, etc. He's saying that's the way it is; if you don't present the blandest possible image on Facebook, it's your own fault if what you say is used against you. Pretty bleak picture.

[ExploitationistX]

Facebook Tips to Make Password Privacy Issue a Non-issue?

Dont use FaceCrook!

[ExploitationistX]

Facebook Tips to Make Password Privacy Issue a Non-issue?

Dont use FaceCrook!

[WJ]

GregClapp, on 24 March 2012 - 09:26 AM, said:

FB is the single best place online for civil political debate...

You might think so, but it isn't. I seldom come across a thoughtful political discussion on Facebook, not even when very well-educated people are involved. People are intolerant even on FB, even when conversing with long-time friends, or with friends of friends.

What Facebook political discussions are good at is revealing to you the friends you have who are a**holes. Intelligent people can take either side of most issues, and I would never judge someone negatively just because they disagreed with me, but it's amazing the number of people who do.

[AldonHynes]

Report any company that requests you violate Facebook's Terms of Service to Facebook and ask that Facebook ban the company from Facebook.

From the Terms of Service:
"You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account."

[BillyBonkoski]

Why not have a password generator? As an application, built into Facebook.

[LiveBrianD]

Kahuna, on 24 March 2012 - 12:27 PM, said:

GregClapp, on 24 March 2012 - 09:26 AM, said:

"Polite Facebook users don’t push their political agendas onto their friends."

Bulls**t. FB is the single best place online for civil political debate because the flamers and trolls can't hide behind pseudonyms or anonymous profiles. You're talking to your friends, and you name is on it, so it enforces a level of civility. If your friends cant't respect your views in the real world, they're not really your friends, and they're probably not going to friend you on FB either.

Bullcr^p. I've got a FB account with a fictitious name. It's the name of a storybook character and my _real_ friends are in on the joke. As for the rest of FB muppets, who cares?

I have one, but I also used a fake name and don't use it for anything. I simply took the name 'Chuck Norris' and changed it a little (because otherwise the automated system wouldn't accept it). I only use it for those companies that give you free stuff if you 'like' them on FB (say, why don't they have a dislike button?), and for checking to ensure that no one else created a fake account for me.

[BobCox]

BobMasterson, on 24 March 2012 - 12:20 PM, said:

THey should be ashamed of themselves, and we do not live in Orwell's 1984

Oh, yes, we do!

[TsarNikky]

What is with people...Anything you put out on the Internet becomes available for public consumption--including current and potential employees. If you don't want the whole world to know something, don't put it on the Internet. The USPS and land-line phone still works very well for "intimate" and private information.

[jennyfletcher]

I've been out of the workplace for a number of years due to chronic illness but the nature of my complaints doesn't stop me being active online. If I was to go back into 'employment' now and a prospective employer asked for private information like this I would question them openly about exactly what they were looking for. An employer that pries into your private life in this objectionable way is likely to make your working life hell with unreasonable demands for overtime, questioning your motives for everything you did at work and generally preventing you having any kind of private life outside work. If you are happy to sacrifice your privacy to get a job then that's up to you but I'd run a mile.