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In reply to the discussion: Why don't employers just break into your home and search your personal belongings? [View all]starroute
(12,977 posts)Some things you post there might be public, others might be shared only with friends, and still others might be shared only with a circle of close friends. There is also information in your profile that you might not intend to share with anybody -- but anybody who has your password has access to it.
In addition, anybody who can log into your Facebook account also gets access to potentially sensitive information that your friends posted with the intention that only their closest friends or family members would see it.
It's one thing for potential employers to look at your website or your blog. But Facebook is a different matter. And the employers are not just asking to see your wall. They want to be able to log in as if they were you, which is several orders of magnitudes more intrusive than just doing a google search and raises serious questions about identity theft.