She explains, “Sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ allow employers to get a glimpse of who you are outside the confines of a résumé, cover letter, or interview” (Smith) Not only are employers using social media for marketing, they are also using it to look at current employees or potential candidates. It very debatable, whether it is the employer’s right to know what they are posting, or is it the employee’s right to privacy. Should the employer be held accountable for breaching the employee’s privacy that is involved in social media? This is hard question to answer, and depending on which side you are on, you may have a different reasoning. However, you may be thinking that you can have your posts on private, which, in turn will hide these posts from being seen by people other than your friends, but there are ways around this too. For instance, if you are friends with a person who is employed by the business you are trying to land a job with, and that person likes, comments, or shares a post of yours, on Facebook, for example, any of those business employees’ friends will see that post, including the head employer. This makes it easy to see posts that may be somewhat hidden from the average person. Instagram, on the other hand, offers its users the ability to set their accounts to private. By doing this, a person has to send you a request to follow you, which, only when approved, will allow that person to see all the pictures that you have posted, or so you have thought. There is a way of getting around this too. This method involves the owner of the Instagram account, sharing their pictures on other social media accounts. Bas Van Den Beld, states a detailed explanation of this method in his article, “How to See Private Instagram Photos without
She explains, “Sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ allow employers to get a glimpse of who you are outside the confines of a résumé, cover letter, or interview” (Smith) Not only are employers using social media for marketing, they are also using it to look at current employees or potential candidates. It very debatable, whether it is the employer’s right to know what they are posting, or is it the employee’s right to privacy. Should the employer be held accountable for breaching the employee’s privacy that is involved in social media? This is hard question to answer, and depending on which side you are on, you may have a different reasoning. However, you may be thinking that you can have your posts on private, which, in turn will hide these posts from being seen by people other than your friends, but there are ways around this too. For instance, if you are friends with a person who is employed by the business you are trying to land a job with, and that person likes, comments, or shares a post of yours, on Facebook, for example, any of those business employees’ friends will see that post, including the head employer. This makes it easy to see posts that may be somewhat hidden from the average person. Instagram, on the other hand, offers its users the ability to set their accounts to private. By doing this, a person has to send you a request to follow you, which, only when approved, will allow that person to see all the pictures that you have posted, or so you have thought. There is a way of getting around this too. This method involves the owner of the Instagram account, sharing their pictures on other social media accounts. Bas Van Den Beld, states a detailed explanation of this method in his article, “How to See Private Instagram Photos without