Colleges Should Not Be Allowed To Look At Social Media

Every morning when students wake up the first thing they do is check their social media. The first thing they do is to check to see what happened while they were sleeping, who’s messaged them. Students use social media for information to find out about the lives of the people surrounding them. Social is a great resource to find out about what’s going on in people’s lives. Colleges and employers should not be able to look at social media pages because it’s not an accurate representation of who they would be, social media is not private, and because it’s your personal life. Colleges and employers should not be able to look at social media pages because it’s not an accurate representation of who they would be in that environment.

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Strengthening privacy online, in many cases, starts with individuals. (Currie). It starts with us to make a change for privacy. People are more likely to post pictures of themselves or accounts of their activities that may disqualify them from jobs with companies that look closely at a job applicant's Internet presence(Currie ). Posting inappropriate content could disqualify you from jobs, companies look closely at job applicant’s internet presence. Privacy is a big deal to everyone, but with privacy comes responsibility. Companies and Colleges should not be allowed to view your personal information on your social profiles. They shouldn’t be allowed to view your personal information because it’s not a accurate representation of who the person would actually be especially in the working force, social media is not private, and you put all your private information there that’s yours.. Concluding sentence Overall companies and colleges shouldn’t have the right to view your private information about yourself and judge you for who you are over a social media profile, it’s not an accurate description of how’d you actually act in the workforce. Of course you would act different when you’re at home than when you’re working, or at school. When you’re home you are on social media, and you post and comment stuff on it as-well. Jobs and Companies don’t have the right to judge you because of what you do or say in your free/private