>The difference being that you don't submit your social media profile as part of applying for a job. Github is a social media platform. Last time I applied for

>The difference being that you don't submit your social media profile as part of applying for a job. Github is a social media platform. Last time I applied for a job, I gave the company an account and URL to access my self-hosted kallithea instance instead. There are a world of benefits to this. I only gave them view access to the projects I considered to be portfolio pieces, and locked them away from the scratch projects. It also allowed me to see how many times they logged in, which is how I know that they never actually looked at any of my hobby code before offering me the job. Lets be real here, companies want your github profile for the same reason they look you up on facebook: everyones at least a little bit into voyeurism. Give 'em something that they know will be logged and scrutinized back, and you'll see what a chilling effect looks like.