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Employers Shouldn’t Be Poking Around Your Facebook
There are a lot of questions surrounding the boundaries that employers or potential employers should have regarding your personal life, whether the information comes up during your employment, or during the hiring process. If you have nothing to hide, then that’s swell, but your Facebook speaks volumes that don’t appear on your job resume.
When an employer researches potential candidates, Google and other search engines are a powerful tool for finding out previous employment history or other character traits of job applicants. And Facebook is a pure resource for finding out anything and everything about a person’s past and present. Even Business Week writes about the dangers of Facebook, as it’s an open book for employers to find out more dirty details about people before they hire them.
Now having a Facebook profile open to your new boss might be a show of trust and honesty, those New Year’s party pictures could cost you that promotion!
Facebroken
It doesn’t take much to screw up a relationship on Facebook. Now while most couples have a strong communication base, Facebook does its darnedest to put relationships to the test.
Whether it’s an ex-girlfriend who asks to be added to your friends list, a beautiful girl who happens to write on your wall, or a glitch with your “relationship” status in your personal profile, Facebook can easily cause rifts in your otherwise happy relationship.
One Facebook bug in a profile changed a woman’s status from “engaged” to “single” and caused enough of a stir to get fifty messages sent to her email box wondering “what happened?”. Of course, nothing had changed in the relationship, but putting the water on those coals took a couple of hours of unproductive time.
While Facebook can be a great window into the worlds of peoples’ lives, it can also cause friction, misunderstandings, and even break-ups, whether intentional or accidental. Friends, romances, and even long-term relationships have ended simply from the power of social networking. Is yours next? 
OMG! That Is Like Totally Weak
There’s usually a pretty good reason to keep your pre-teen relatives outta your facebook. For example, my twelve-year-old niece recently added me as a friend, which I thought was harmless. However, after less than a day, I was receving an endless stream of messages from her and her tweenage friends, when she added me to an email list.
I was inundated with countless messages saying “Yah, like I know”, “totally whatever, that boy is a l0ser”, and “OMG! Do you really think he likes you?!!!”
After politely asking the girl (twice!) to remove me from the list, or at least not do a “reply to all” when she sends off her teen girl love gossip, without success, I decided to remove her from my list of friends entirely.
She’s not a bad girl, but there’s only so much teenage drama that I can accept in my inbox. So, in the future, we can stay in contact through email or in person, but she’s “outta my Facebook” until she’s at least mature enough to speak in “totally” complete sentences.
Facebook Addiction Is Real I Tell You!
Just look at this one girl’s tale of despair when she talks about going one day without Facebook. I’m sure there are thousands of people out there who try to get away from the siren’s call of Facebook, but are drawn to their computers like social networking ants to virtual honey.
Let’s not draw too much attention to her peculair fascination with Napoleon Dynamite, or her very poor Photoshopping skills. Perhaps if she hadn’t spent so much time Facebooking she could’ve learned a thing or two about layers.
Shame On You, Son!
You see what happens when people spend too much time Facebooking? Soon you’re testing the relationship of your best friend. While yes, you realize that his mother is attractive, it wouldn’t have gone this far if you just said “hi Mrs. Smith” when you came over to ask if Billy could come out and play street hockey.
But now, with Facebook, you can lurk and spy on your friend’s mom’s hotness in the safety of your own basement. Now, after seeing those Maui vacation pictures of Billy’s mother in a two-piece bathing suit, you’ll never be able to look at her the same way! Bye bye youthful innocence!
I’ve been using Twitter for a while, and I must say that I like the idea of updating my status for my friends using this simple application. I click on my Twitter homepage, type in my blurb, click “update”, and I’m done.
Now I understand that the Facebook “what am I doing” application can do the same thing, but with Twitter, I can do it without all the extra nonsense, and I can keep a handle on what all my friends are doing on just one easy-to-read page.
I don’t work for Twitter, I’m not an actor, and I’m not getting paid for this; I just think that it’s good to share the simple things in life, and Twitter is just one less reason why I would need to log in to my Facebook account!
