Do you think your privacy settings on your Facebook and Twitter accounts will keep future employers and school officials from seeing your private posts?
Not at all!
Some employers and colleges want to go through all your personal information hiding behind those password-protected accounts and privacy walls. Many are starting to demand full access from job applicants and student athletes.
In Maryland, job seekers applying to the state's Department of Corrections have been asked during interviews to log into their accounts and let an interviewer watch while the potential employee clicks through wall posts, friends, photos and anything else that might be found behind the privacy wall.
Submitting to a Facebook review is voluntary but most applicants agree in order to get a favorable interview.
Many college Student-athletes in are required to "friend" a coach or compliance officer giving that person access to their “friends-only” posts.
Schools are also turning to social media monitoring companies with names like UDilligence and Varsity Monitor for software packages that automate the task. The programs offer a "reputation scoreboard" to coaches and send "threat level" warnings about individual athletes to compliance officers.
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