Potential employer wants to add me to Facebook

Last year my boss sent friend requests out to most of his employees (we are mobile engineers and work on our own). Last month he gave warnings to 3 employees because they spend too much time during working hours on facebook. My thoughts where 'what a ****'. I am glad i just ignored his request and when he asked me why i hadn't added him as a friend i told him my mates would kick the **** out of me if i had a mate who is a manc (i am a scouser). He laughed at that but the truth is that i probably go on facebook a couple of times a year and that is to **** off my boss to someone i work with so i dont want the boss reading that :D

Fully star out swear words!
 
I had my old manager (still do) and a lot of work colleagues on fb but then we all got on as friends and would often go out etc. I wouldn't let an employer that I wasn't real life friends with to have access to my fb. Not that I have much activity on it but I feel that its my private page and I don't want anyone and everyone to see it.
 
If you dont have much on there, then accept and if you get the job remove them from it. They arent gong to fire you if you.

Depends how much you want the job really. f you want the job and nothing to hide accept. If you do have something that you dont want people seeing and dont want the job, decline it.
 
Tried to keep my co workers off facebook but once 1 found me the whole lot swarmed in.

I wouldnt accept the invite at least until they give you the job.
 
i read it as though it's a vacancy within a company that is a competitor to where he used work, not that he used to work for the company he's applying for a job with
 
Even if I had Facebook, I would politely decline. You don't use facebook. If they think this is a problem then they aren't worth working for.

Seeing more and more ridiculous recruitment hoops these days, like the automated skype-interview. Just take your talent elsewhere, HR depts. have to learn that such ridiculous practices will not find the cremé.


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Your proposed letter is not appropriate, try this:
Dear Sir/Madam,
With regards to the Fakebook "friend request" I have recently received from your department; I am sorry to inform you that I will not be confirming this request as I no longer use the Facebook account in question and I beleive that personal and professional forums should be kept seperate.
I expect that this will not be a problem?
Kind Regards,
Your Name.
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(run it through a spell checker 1st).
 
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I've got virtually all the lads & lasses i work with on facebook but we're (mostly) all pretty friendly outside work anyway - nights out and social stuff, but i wouldn't add my boss. It's a line that shouldn't be crossed, imo, befriending your boss outside work. He can be an OK guy but i don't really want him seeing photos of me completely smashed in town or me and our lass doing something....

Personally i'd just decline it and say you prefer to keep your professional life seperate to your personal life - it's a fair thing to say really.
 
ye its all good and well till your off sick one day and they joke about ''oh well jay was out drinking yesterday haha glug glug'' and your boss overhears!
 
BigglesPiP said:
Seeing more and more ridiculous recruitment hoops these days, like the automated skype-interview. Just take your talent elsewhere, HR depts. have to learn that such ridiculous practices will not find the cremé.
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automated skype ridiculous? someone on these forums a few months back had an automated video interview lol

they will all be wanting big brother style audition tapes next :rolleyes:

some of the stuff people have to do even for regular supermarket/department store jobs is ridiculous why do you need to do group acitvities to stack shelfS? in the actual role you work alone at night doing your own isle while other people do there own isle.

you dont work as a team so why bother having group activities for an interview you could live under a rock outside your working hours and not have a single friend it wouldnt stop you beeing good at stacking shelves
 
I'd definitely deny this. They have no right/expectations for you to accept this. As others have said, it's up to you how you choose to interact with them and co-workers and who you choose to add as friends.

Personally, I only ever add people on Facebook once I've finished a job, if they're not my superior or if I know they'd be fine with any of my normal Facebook activity. All this is from somebody who is very very careful about how i present myself online - detagging drunken photos, keeping a respectable profile picture and deleting the more lewd comments friends make on my wall. I have all of my privacy settings to friends only, and you can only see my profile picture and network info when you try to search for me (so people can find me if they know my university/work background). I tend to view what they can see on Facebook as an extension of the "me" I present at interviews.

I was the lucky one on the receiving end of a video interview, which turned out to have half its content in a foreign language. Fun.
 
Big fat no from me too

Mate it isnt worth the hassel. You dont want to be mixing your Out of work life with the job :/

Just opening a can of worms. Nothing but problems can come from it
 
adambro47 said:
Big fat no from me
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facebook is step 1
step 2 is cctv inside your house and phone tapping.
step 3 is an implant behind your eyes that allows your employer to see what you are upto at all times.
step 4 is a behaviour modification chip
step 5 is total control of your life
 
First of all: that's WEIRD. I wouldn't accept it.

Option 2: Create a friends list that doesn't give access to ANY of your photos or wall etc, then when you accept them (if you do - I certainly wouldn't) add them to that list.
 
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