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> I don't think NOT having a facebook account has ever prevented anyone from getting a job. Rather the opposite, actually. Well, you're wrong. I've had intervi

> I don't think NOT having a facebook account has ever prevented anyone from getting a job. Rather the opposite, actually. Well, you're wrong. I've had interviewers ask why I host my own blog instead of using Facebook, and said it was very unusual that they couldn't check out my social background. And Craiglist rental ads often screen applicants using social media, usually Facebook.

ekianjo 6y ago
> Well, you're wrong. I've had interviewers ask why I host my own blog instead of using Facebook, and said it was very unusual that they couldn't check out my social background. Well, why would an employer need to check your social background? They should care about your skills more than anything else.
- vincnetas 6y ago
  Yes. You can go and try explain this to them. Good luck.
- psychoslave 6y ago
  Well I can be the most technically skilled of my domain, and yet be a total bastard that would bring nothing but trouble in whatever team I would join. Thus said, a call to previous employers should do the trick.
  - Maha-pudma 6y ago
    How is viewing a Facebook profile in the control of that total bastard a good way of determining whether they should be given a job? Personally I'm on no social network, on purpose. I've never had any issues. If it was an issue for an employer that I didn't have a Facebook account that their issue not mine.
  - ben_w 6y ago
    > Thus said, a call to previous employers should do the trick. I don’t know what it’s like where you are (or what it’s like where I am now), but in the U.K. references from a previous employer are limited to confirming that a person worked at a place between specific dates. This is because everyone gets legal advice warning they may be sued for libel if they either say anything negative or have a policy of saying nothing only for bad employees. I don’t know how likely the scenario is, but everywhere I’ve worked before I left the U.K. shared that policy and that reasons.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago
  > why would an employer need to check your social background? They should care about your skills more than anything else. I don’t want to work in an office with an unrepentant violent criminal or vigorous racist. Irrespective of their skill.
  - gassius 6y ago
    I don't want to work with someone who acts antisocially, but I don't care at all what they do in their private sphere. I couldnt care less if they are racist homophobic pigs posting on 4chan at nights if they dont bring that trash to work. I couldnt care less if they have a conviction and they already pay their dues. But, thats me

ekianjo 6y ago

> Well, you're wrong. I've had interviewers ask why I host my own blog instead of using Facebook, and said it was very unusual that they couldn't check out my social background. Well, why would an employer need to check your social background? They should care about your skills more than anything else.

vincnetas 6y ago
Yes. You can go and try explain this to them. Good luck.
psychoslave 6y ago
Well I can be the most technically skilled of my domain, and yet be a total bastard that would bring nothing but trouble in whatever team I would join. Thus said, a call to previous employers should do the trick.
- Maha-pudma 6y ago
  How is viewing a Facebook profile in the control of that total bastard a good way of determining whether they should be given a job? Personally I'm on no social network, on purpose. I've never had any issues. If it was an issue for an employer that I didn't have a Facebook account that their issue not mine.
- ben_w 6y ago
  > Thus said, a call to previous employers should do the trick. I don’t know what it’s like where you are (or what it’s like where I am now), but in the U.K. references from a previous employer are limited to confirming that a person worked at a place between specific dates. This is because everyone gets legal advice warning they may be sued for libel if they either say anything negative or have a policy of saying nothing only for bad employees. I don’t know how likely the scenario is, but everywhere I’ve worked before I left the U.K. shared that policy and that reasons.
JumpCrisscross 6y ago
> why would an employer need to check your social background? They should care about your skills more than anything else. I don’t want to work in an office with an unrepentant violent criminal or vigorous racist. Irrespective of their skill.
- gassius 6y ago
  I don't want to work with someone who acts antisocially, but I don't care at all what they do in their private sphere. I couldnt care less if they are racist homophobic pigs posting on 4chan at nights if they dont bring that trash to work. I couldnt care less if they have a conviction and they already pay their dues. But, thats me