Do You Need A Facebook Profile To Get A Job?

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I landed a pretty good job at a financial institution earlier this year. I deleted my Facebook profile (not just disabled, but the arduous task of deleting) in late 2010. It was never a concern that I had no profile, in fact the individual I replaced had no profile. He was early 20's believe it or not, I am early 30's.

He and I discovered we shared the same view of the Facebook service while I was training. We agreed that it is a waste of time and anyone serious about their lives will find very little time to give to that website. I never, and I mean never, find myself bored. Neither do i care two sh*ts about what you, your friend, my friend, neighbor, etc. did last night. That may sound introverted but I take it as a respect for others privacy. Likewise I don't feel any need to publicize my personal life or any component of it. I don't falsely believe I am a celebrity nor do I want any part of having my life displayed publicly. I am aware of privacy settings, but I do not easily forget the very quote from Zuckerberg referring to his users as "dumb f**ks" for trusting him with their contact information.

Overall I don't feel Facebook adds any real value to my life. I had no more real friends when I used it, and guess what... I have no less real friends now that I have stopped using it. It was a constant negative stimuli in my life, and the lives of others, that breeds jealously and unnecessary drama. I would find myself in need of a quick check in just to see whats changed on the site immediately after work. 3-4 hours later I found I had accomplished nothing but perusing old threads and looking at the same pictures over and over again. I may find myself in a similarly non-productive state today as a result of video games but at least those have entertained me. Honestly after 3 hours of Facebook time I felt unfulfilled and was surely not entertained.

Of course it may be of some use to have say a LinkedIn profile. I am not wholeheartedly against social networking, but I favor those sites that provide a specific service such as LinkedIn. In this case it functions as a place where I can store a digital resume, and as the author put it, allows for a digital presence.

I do believe your digital presence can produce a negative image of yourself, but that is not entirely the fault of 3rd parties. An individual has the power to control what is posted about them and if they truly have nothing to hide should easily be able to dispel and negative digital gossip.

I think Facebook is truly a world wide addiction. Consider convincing an alcoholic as to why they don't need alcohol, then compare that to explaining to Facebook users why they don't need Facebook. As a joke a friend and I restricted Facebook access on his home network. A day later his girlfriend was panicked and in tears when she realized it wasn't just a temporary outage. For days she was physically discontent and violently angry when she found out it was a joke.

I can see how people would have an issue with this topic, but still social media accounts and your own personal online activities should remain just that, personal. I stopped applying for jobs and decided to start working from home using my skills and knowledge with social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. One helpful resource that I have found is at

http://MySocialMediaWorkAtHome.com/facebook-jobs

But what about when somebody has a very common name, like I do? Then how do employers try to figure out which one of the thousands of Facebook users with my name is myself? And I am not even on Facebook, but how would they know?

Funny how so many people are up in arms about their own privacy, yet think nothing about posting their life on Facebook. I've been working with computers since before the internet was around. I consider myself VERY tech savy. I would never post on FadBook or any other place. It's not just employers who can view your information. Being tech savy and being caught up in the hype are two different things. As far as this article goes, I do not agree with the fact that in todays day and age you HAVE to have an online profile somewhere to get a job. I'm employed and have no problem getting work without a Fadbook profile.

Wow, that's crazy! Are these employers stupid or just that lazy?...half the crap I read about people I know on FB, are lies! Get on the phone and call some references people!!!.....jussayin' ;-)

P.S. - Just FYI, the author has a link to her business that helps people create positive social media presences. Aren't we being a bit biased here?

The problem is articles such as this - they are floating around the mainstream media and eventually what is in this article will become a standard. Employers really have no business digging into your personal life, but the sheep will oblige and let them do so. Companies value their privacy, compensation policies, trade secrets, etc and you should value yours too. Would a company share their salary band data online? Doubtful unless it is a state agency who is required by law to do so.

The conclusion of this article is self-justifying rubbish. I have no doubt that recruiters will search on line for you, but to suggest that having no on-line profile is “suspicious at best” has no justification - other than perhaps that the Gen Y-er who wrote it cannot understand people who might not wish to have an on-line profile. Miriam, you have no basis for making such a conclusion without some attempt at research into those who do not have an on-line profile. Some may not have started such a profile on any of the social websites for a multitude of reasons. I am sure that probably more of them are shy, or socially inept, or lack access to computers, or don’t like the falseness and pressures to conform of social media rather than are axe murderers or denizens of the underworld. All you are displaying by writing of your suspicions in this article is your suspicion of things that you don’t understand. All humans fear the unknown. To you, the unknown are the people who choose to live their life outside social media and refuse to conform to your idea of a social norm. They may very well fit every other aspect of social norms in our complex society and perhaps excel at some of them, to the point that they are so busy they have no time or inclination to be bothered with FaceTube.

I realise that I have slipped into a stereotypical argument here, but please, open your eyes and look outside. There is a world out there. “Suspicious at best”. Pah! “Narrow minded and unimaginative at best” is my judgment of your article.