The next time you post a message about your drunken nights on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks it might be worth taking a step back and figuring out how those messages may affect your future and even current employment.
The FTC has approved social media background checks and this practice is increasingly being adopted by many companies.
The number of employers gathering social network information according to a recent study are on the climb and the information they are gathering might surprise some users, including posts, feeds and even photos.
What’s more surprising about the information gathering is that company’s aren’t exactly doing detective work to find information about their potential employees as many individuals are simply posting their information as “publicly available” information that can be quickly gathered.
The simple fix? Turn your profiles private. As many Facebook users are already aware, profiles are defaulted to public settings on most networks, allowing those websites to share your information with Google and other search engines, however by setting your entire profile to private access and not accepting unknown friends requests you can easily protect yourself from prying eyes. You read more
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