Watch Your Facebook Page

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Even with strict privacy settings, employers can still see your profile pic and your wall. Employers look. Do you want them to see you as a partier? Think about what they see.

Of course a relative of mine broke all these rules and than some and always gets new job...that's only because she married a lawyer. That's her leverage. Most of us however don't carry that kind of clout. She just doesn't hold jobs due to her party girl work ethic.

Employers may sometimes think that partiers are people with good social skills. But your rite about employers checking those profiles so people should be careful about the image they give off. I don't even use FB or any social media so I don't have to worry about that.

Mine is nothing but weather, food and freeways and cats.

I try and leave the security settings up as high as possible. Still, if they could get through to my page in spite of it, then they'd find that I whine about all sorts of political ills which may well tick them off. Of course, I figure anyone that would go that far as to sneak through a FB backdoor to spy upon me would likely be a controlling employer and not one I'd want to work for anyway, so I don't mind too much.

Your relative is going to run of bridges to burn eventually.

My Facebook page is full of cat pictures. I mostly just talk to my best friends on Facebook every so often and follow some of my favorite TV shows.

The only thing they would get from my Facebook page is that I really like dogs and happen to have a birthday every year (yeah no kidding :') )
Not that I think my boss would have checked that, co - workers might have though.. I think my boss pretty much hires whomever is suggested by his staff. (It's pretty much only the four of us so they get a pretty big say in who will be their future co worker)

Then again, maybe employers will work out that I'm an anti-social weirdo because I don't have a Facebook thingie.