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> There's no difference asking for Facebook or Instagram or Twitter. LinkedIn is a professional networking - and resume/CV hosting site. Facebook and Instgram

> There's no difference asking for Facebook or Instagram or Twitter. LinkedIn is a professional networking - and resume/CV hosting site. Facebook and Instgram are for friends, family, hobbies, and the like. They're worlds apart and it's intellectually dishonest of you to equate them. > Would you hire a photographer without seeing their Instagram? No, I wouldn't. Instagram isn't Flickr, deviantArt, nor their professional portfolio.

sneak 6y ago
> They're worlds apart and it's intellectually dishonest of you to equate them. Absolutely not; public webpages are public webpages. What someone chooses to publish, and where, is an important measure of their personality and attitude.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
  Facebook profiles aren't necessarily public. If I have a private Facebook account that's reserved solely for family matters, what right do you as a prospective employer have to expect to see it? - I see your point is based on the notion that "if it's public in one space, you intend for it to be public in all spaces in your life" - but that's an incorrect assumption: Fetlife profiles aren't "public" (insofar as Google can't see them), and I don't have my real-life name on it, and I certainly don't intend to share it with anyone whom I want to maintain a strict separation from my private life. Am I not entitled to a private life? What right do you have to enter my private life? Can I see your Fetlife account? Can I see inside your house from the street-level windows? Can I bring a ladder to the side of your house and peer into your upstairs bedroom? Where's the limit for you?
  - sneak 6y ago
    As I mentioned, I don't ask for passwords, and I don't have an FB account myself to "friend" anyone. Any information they don't publish to the whole world isn't my concern. I am talking about public webpages. As for my Fetlife account, my username is the same there as it is here, and on IRC, and on Wikipedia, and on GitHub, et c. I have blackout treatments on my windows. The aptitude for being aware of what is or isn't public/published is something I hire for, too. Then again, I work with data and customers that live and die by such things.

sneak 6y ago

> They're worlds apart and it's intellectually dishonest of you to equate them. Absolutely not; public webpages are public webpages. What someone chooses to publish, and where, is an important measure of their personality and attitude.

DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
Facebook profiles aren't necessarily public. If I have a private Facebook account that's reserved solely for family matters, what right do you as a prospective employer have to expect to see it? - I see your point is based on the notion that "if it's public in one space, you intend for it to be public in all spaces in your life" - but that's an incorrect assumption: Fetlife profiles aren't "public" (insofar as Google can't see them), and I don't have my real-life name on it, and I certainly don't intend to share it with anyone whom I want to maintain a strict separation from my private life. Am I not entitled to a private life? What right do you have to enter my private life? Can I see your Fetlife account? Can I see inside your house from the street-level windows? Can I bring a ladder to the side of your house and peer into your upstairs bedroom? Where's the limit for you?
- sneak 6y ago
  As I mentioned, I don't ask for passwords, and I don't have an FB account myself to "friend" anyone. Any information they don't publish to the whole world isn't my concern. I am talking about public webpages. As for my Fetlife account, my username is the same there as it is here, and on IRC, and on Wikipedia, and on GitHub, et c. I have blackout treatments on my windows. The aptitude for being aware of what is or isn't public/published is something I hire for, too. Then again, I work with data and customers that live and die by such things.