Employers asking applicants for Facebook, Twitter passwords

Has anyone had their employer ask for their private passwords? I'd politely withdraw my application if an employers tried to pull this garbage.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/resume-references-password-job-seekers-get-asked-in-interviews-to-provide-facebook-logins/2012/03/20/gIQAVlNhOS_story.html?tid=pm_business_pop

 

I not only provide my Facebook password but also the password to my e-mail accounts as well. Then I show them my banking statements to show them I'm good with a checking account and never bounce checks. Then I give them credit statements and password information from my mom to prove that I come from a good, honest, well-balanced pedigree. If that's not enough I allow them to shove a fist up my ass to make sure I haven't smuggled any drugs or weapons into the interview.

I'd sleep in the streets before agreeing to this.

 

Sure you can have it. Maybe you'd like to go through my wife's underwear drawer while you're at it.

 

Moddy, that was the OTHER Johnny Dangerously. Damn.

 

If a legislator in Arizona with a straight face can introduce a bill that allows employers to rifle through your health records to make sure you're not taking whore pills, then I don't see this as a shocking development. Horrifying, yes. Shocking, no.

 

The government will have access to all of it starting in 2013.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter

 

Saw this article yesterday, but didn't have time to post it. Glad you did, Stitch.

I would never work for someone who asked me for my password.

If they sent me a friend request on Facebook, I could understand that, though I would decline it and tell them that I keep my private life separate from my business life.

But asking for your password is a major invasion of privacy. Would they ask if they could tap your phone? Or for your online banking password? This is absurd and I feel terrible that some people are in such a position that they need a job badly enough to agree.

 

"Checking out" an applicant isn't an exact science. However, looking at FB may not give you an accurate snap shot of the person. You can look at the post of their friends and come up with the wrong conclusion.
Tweets can show if the person is reckless and using google or dogpile can come up with some very interesting information.
I'm pretty sure if someone wanted my FB or Tweet passwords, I'd have to ask them why and what they were looking for. I wouldn't give up the password because that's mine, but I would "friend" them.
I have to agree with moddy's last four words.

 

Anchovy: send your resume

 

I've told this story on here before. My friend owns a medium-sized web development company. She interviewed a candidate for a job and was impressed enough to want to bring the guy in for a second interview. The candidate had started following her on Twitter around the time of the first interview, so she followed him back. The day she was planning to call him to schedule the second interview, he Tweeted "At work. Still drunk." Guess who didn't get the second interview?

 

Where do you live?