The Internet has made it possible for everyone to create digital bodies that reflect a whole lot more than their thoughts , they create what they want to be. ( Boyd ) Everyones online profiles convey a lot about them, but that content is produced in a context. And, more often than not, that context has nothing to do with employment. People would think right? This creates an interesting question. Should employers have the right to discriminate against people because or by of peoples social media footprint? One might argue that they should because such a profile reflects your “character” or there priorities or there public presence. People think that’s just code for discriminating against them because there not like ¨them¨, the theoretical …show more content…
How is that fair? Its not. Over half of the applicants found on search engines and nearly two-thirds of the applicants found on social networking sites were not hired as a result of the information found on sites, such as Facebook.com, MySpace.com, and Google.com. Among other concerns, these sites are not necessarily valid nor is there any way to ascertain the true identity of the person responsible for the information found. Unlike the interview process, there is no personal connection when sifting through information found on the internet and therefore there is a greater likelihood for the information to be taken out of context or misused. applicants have a unfair time when people or companies or colleges do this, non or the sites are even valid.( Cartwright,Jeffrey.) Why would they do this?In many cases, the information used to determine the suitability of a prospective employee had little or no bearing on their ability to adequately complete the work. In fact, 8% of the potential employees that were rejected as a result of information found on search engines and networking sites were rejected because their screen name was unprofessional. (Cartwright, Jeffrey.)unprofessional, the definition of …show more content…
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For example, Rosen states, “According to a recent survey by Microsoft, seventy percent of U.S. recruiters report that they have rejected candidates because of information found online,” (Rosen, Para. 3). Most of the time it is a necessity for companies to do online and background research on candidates because of wanting a safe environment to work in. Social media sites are the fastest way to see who a person truly is. But sometimes it can just be a character they posses because that’s what they’re followers want to see rather than their true self.
Have you ever been confronted by an employer or administrator because they just so happened to come across a post you made on a personal account of yours? A friend of mine almost lost her job because of a situation like this. One day, while she was at work, she posted a tweet saying that she was tired of her job. A couple of days later, she was approached by one of her managers. Her manager acknowledged the tweet and also mentioned that his boss saw it as well. She explained to her manager that it was not her intention to be “insulting”. Her manager strictly explained to her that if he were to be notified about a similar post, she would be fired. I believe that her tweet was a personal thought and that she was only expressing how she felt at the moment. In result of this, employers should not hire or fire employees based on the content of their social media.
If you were asked for your Facebook password, what would you say or do? Job applicants cringe to the idea of sharing their social media activity history with their potential employers. However, is it really as bad of a breach in privacy than people think? Does the right to privacy mean anything shared online should be kept confidential? Interestingly, just as applicants have the right to say no to this query, employers have the right to ask. To some employers, the benefits of surveilling potential job candidates’ Facebook activities outweigh the concerns for personal ‘online’ space. Employers must be allowed to ask for Facebook passwords when deemed necessary in order to not only hire the best candidate for the job, but also to protect children
Companies have determined what an employee does while at work or away from work on social media can greatly affect the company’s image. For example, the National Football League (NFL) has a code of conduct policy that holds employees of a team and organization accountable for the employee’s comments on social media. An employee, on their own time, is no longer a private entity, acting on their own accord without consequences from their employer. This new approach to managing a company’s image or message dictates how a company monitors and responds to acts, whether they are behavior, speech or actions they find inappropriate.
Social media outlets have allowed society to share more information than ever before. The often forgotten fact by internet users is that once a picture, Tweet, or post has been published to a social media site it forever becomes part of the annals of the web. While many believe what they do and say on a social media site will not affect their chances at future employment or provide grounds for termination, the reality is quite the opposite. A new trend has emerged in Employment Law in which employers are making employment decision based off of what they find in applicants or employee’s social media activity. The questions regarding the legality of this practice are extensive. While social media can be a powerful tool in recruitment of a potential candidate, much of the personal information contained on these websites are protected characteristics under existing laws that protect employees from discrimination. Employers need to careful to balance employee’s rights against the business needs of a company.
It is becoming increasingly hard for people seeking employment to keep a perfect record as, “75 percent of US recruiters and human –resource professionals report that their companies require them to do online research about prospective employees.” One huge threat to personal privacy is many technological advances .In contrast to decades before where you had, “to be a celebrity to be gossiped about in public: today [we] are learning to expect the scrutiny that used to be reserved for the famous and the infamous.” Rosen goes on to say that the internet allows for so much bad content to be open to the public ,and the fact that the internet never seems to forget is , “ threatening ,at an almost existential level ,our ability to control our identities and …holds the option of reinventing our lives and starting new ,free to overcome our checkered pasts
Social networks are increasing dramatically every year. Employers are turning to social networks because it is a tool to screen job applicant’s profiles. According to a survey conducted by jobvite.com (2013), 94 % of employers use social media profiles to recruit job applicants. This trend assists the applicants and recruiters. Job applicants should be judged by their social network profiles because social media give positive image about the candidate, prove the information in the resume, and help to identify if the person fits the culture of the company or not.
Companies dismiss abilities that are easy to replicate, such as making a social media account. In the article, “Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.”, the author writes, “In a capitalist economy, the market rewards things that are rare and valuable. Social media use is decidedly not rare or valuable. Any 16-year-old with a smartphone can invent a hashtag or repost a viral article” (Newport, 2016). Cal Newport, the author of this article is a millennial computer scientist that has never had a social media account. That alone proves that you can still be successful without social media. The quote demonstrates that anyone that has access to wifi can acquire a social media account, if they really wanted to. Some popular social media platforms, but are not limited to, are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. These platforms allow the user to post statuses and photographs so other people can view them. The claim is that social media isn’t rare or unique, since there are billions of accounts made already; it won’t make an individual stand out more than others. Furthermore, companies hiring new people for a job placement will look for one-of-a-kind candidates; something that makes them extraordinary compared to the rest, as an individual that exceeds these
A person’s right to privacy is being challenged with the high use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter. What used to be considered part of your personal life is not so personal anymore. When one chooses to share details about ones-self to their friends via a social media, they are not always thinking about the “other” people. The other people could be ones current boss or future employer. Other people could be a school official, your baseball coach, your friends’ mother; you name it the list goes on and on. Recently, a few employers or perspective employers have requested Facebook and other social network log-in information. It is probably a violation of equal employment laws, and there are two senators investigating the practice of requiring job applicants and employees to provide their social network log-in information as a condition of employment.
This research is unique because it will give light to the individuals who are against social networking that will not take to consideration that it has any positive outcomes at all and to those who believe that social networking has no downfalls and are too blinded by the social networking to even notice the affects it has on their own lives.
Social networking sites like Facebook can have both negative and positive effects. Facebook can leave us feeling like we are not good enough if we don’t have enough likes on our pictures or if we do not have a certain amount of friends. While on the other hand it can make us feel empowered and worthy when we have a significant amount of likes on our picture and thousands of friends on Facebook. The following two articles argue whether or not social networking sites like Facebook, have a negative or positive effect on one’s overall well-being. As the old saying goes, there are always two sides to everything.
One piece of evidence in source 1 is, “employers should not be judging what people in their private lives do away from the workplace”(par 9). This refers to social media a future employee might not be posting on what he/she does as a worker the skills they have, they might post more about there life in what they do outside of their work. Having social media is more basically a use as an attraction to see funny things, local news, communicate with family out of state or other things that are not basically of work. An example would be, if there holding wine and another person sees it they'll probably think that the person has issues and the possibility is another person could get that picture and make bad use of iit. It isn't always good to post pictures like that because what a person post like a picture like that to some people it will look bad and the picture would look like a different
Supporters of social networking sites say that the online communities promote increased interaction with friends and family; offer teachers, librarians, and students valuable access to educational support and materials. Social networks are now widespread in our world with existing social networks expanding, social networking sites are being created for educators, medical professionals all accessible 24 hours a day via computer, tablet, smart phone, and Internet-enabled devices. Challengers of social networking say that the sites prevent face-to-face communication, waste time on frivolous activity and spread false and potentially dangerous information.
Social networking is doing more harm than good in society, if traditional and personal interactions continue to be replaced with conversations through online networking sites, it won’t be long before they are perceived as the ‘norm’. Traditional methods of interaction will continue to be at risk if the effects of social media are not realised. Social networking sites were created as a means of making it easier for individuals to communicate in a timely and efficient manner, they were not created to take over face-to-face communications altogether. The constant use of online networking is doing more harm than good not only individually, similarly through the community
Even though people have different opinions on whether social media has a positive or negative impact on society, it can be said that social media has a positive effect on society as a whole because it lets people communicate with each other easily, it has been said to improve education among children, and has helped improve the economy in the world. One of the main reasons why social media has positively affected our society is because of how it has made communicating with people much easier. “Today, four out of five active internet users maintain at least one social media profile” (Moe, 3). Using these websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and etc., people talk about everything with anyone from what they are planning to do, to what they are eating and much more (Moe, 24). We can also send private messages to other users of these websites about personal matters that you just want to discuss with them.