Manage your Facebook privacy settings

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One topic discussed at our Career Seminar is your Online Presence / Social Media. Before being invited for an interview, airline recruiters will do a Google search of you and your Facebook account is usually the first thing that pops up. Be mindful of what you post online or photos of you that are being tagged with your name. If you have not adjusted your Facebook privacy settings it is a good idea to watch the video.

www.inc.com/dave-kerpen/how-to-protect-your-privacy-on-facebook.html?nav=featured
 
Best way to manage your Facebook settings is to quit Facebook.

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Can't give up Facebook..... Then I'd actually have to call my family and friends! Perhaps I'll just keep my maiden name on Facebook and apply to United/Delta/JetBlue/Virgin/etc using my new legal last name. Problem solved.
I have a number of friends who have changed their names on FB all together. Confusing? Yes, but it's good cover, especially for the not so bright ones with drunk partying pictures all over their page.
 
I've also heard in this day and age that if you don't have a facebook, they consider that you might be trying to hide something about your personal life... That came from an airline HR employee. I was annoyed by the comment, but just passing it along.
 
Deleting all my photos and uploading nothing but cute kittens. Maybe then ill get a call to interview.


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I've also heard in this day and age that if you don't have a facebook, they consider that you might be trying to hide something about your personal life... That came from an airline HR employee. I was annoyed by the comment, but just passing it along.

That airline HR employee is a total effing idiot.
 
That's nothing. Some HR department's were requiring applicants to provide their login and ID in order to be hired.

http://www.techspot.com/news/47884-employers-ask-job-seekers-for-facebook-login-information.html

Wow.

For once I am speechless....

EDIT - No, I'm not...

This is interesting, though...

Further to this, according to the report by CBS, the Department of Justice also considers it to be a Federal crime to enter a social networking site in violation of its terms of service, although during a recent congressional testimony, the DOJ said such acts would go unprosecuted.


Any HR department willfully committing a Federal Crime? No thanks. Find another sucker.

I don't have a FB account. I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure I could make a case for unlawful discrimination if this became an issue over getting a job.
 
That's nothing. Some HR department's were requiring applicants to provide their login and ID in order to be hired.

http://www.techspot.com/news/47884-employers-ask-job-seekers-for-facebook-login-information.html

Yup! I know a person here who was required to give all of his logins and passwords to social media websites in order to be hired.

On social media, you're encouraged to say "This is my mom, this is my brother, this is my birthday" yadda yadda yadda and your information is only as secure as your least secure friend. So when you call to get into someone's account, as a criminal, with some light Googling and digging around social media, you can figure out enough of the person's information in order to gain access to their account.

For a period of time, on iCloud, all you needed was a date of birth and a login name in order to reset the password. Then once you're in there, you can dig around email folders, sent mail, recieved email, etc and get a look at what accounts a user has in order to infiltrate even more of them.

All I'm saying is be careful what personal information you post on social media.

Some of the quests they ask for security are readily available online like mother's maiden name, name of your first school, your pets name, date of birth, the year you graduated high school, etc. We're unknowingly creating a treasure trove of readily available personal data that criminals just love.
 
Ooh! It was! But this is about a year or two before the law was enacted.

I used to "Demon Dial" MCI and Sprint card numbers back in my days as a 7th grade cybercriminal, if I ever revert back to CrimeDerg 3000(tm), I'm going to have a hell of a good time with all the information out there! :)
 
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