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Does anyone know anything else about this. Apparently, Facebook shut down Power.com's access to Facebook. All they wanted to do was allow their users to get all their social networking in one place. You would be able to go to Power.com and see all your updates from sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, and a few others, including Facebook.
What I find particularly odd about this is that Power.com is not the first company to have the idea of allowing people to get their social networking from one place. I don't know for sure whether they're the first to include Facebook, I doubt it though.
Why would Facebook shut them down? This is another oddity. Facebook has been making huge strides to increase their page views lately. Maybe they're trying to hang onto every little page view they can get.
Personally, I think it's a little silly of Facebook to shut down a company who's promoting their website for them for free. It may be drawing some traffic away, but ultimately, if the people getting their updates want to post back, they'll have to do it from Facebook, won't they?
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Imagine this... You go on a job interview and are asked for your Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter user names and passwords. What would you do? What would you think about this company? Can something like this really happen?
This is what actually happened in Bozeman, Montana, US. The city was asking potential employees for this personal information. They've since stopped, but what does this say about the state of hiring in the US?
"inadvertently comes across information about the applicant's age, race, family planning, religion or any other protected status, and that information improperly influences the hiring decision, they could then be liable for discrimination on state and/or federal levels." ~Lora Bentley, ITBusinessEdge
I never thought about it this way. I was more concerned about the extreme level of personal privacy that's being invaded when a potential employer encroaches in on a potential employees Facebook space and starts nosing around. Shouldn't you be allowed to speak your opinions in a personal space like Facebook without wondering what some person you never met, but has your life in his hands, is thinking about you?
Lora's right though. US law protects people from discrimination against age, race, religion and other personal beliefs. There are so many things that someone can find out from your Facebook even before the interview. They're bound to guess your age at the interview, so that's not really protected that much, but the rest can be hidden, except for your online habits.
Don't get excited or upset, this is just a joke. I just thought it was funny so I wanted to share it with you. Hope you like it as much as I did. Let me know what you think.
