[JGailor]

Facebook played the Friend card in their press release, and did it really well. If you are giving up your Facebook password, you're not just giving up your information, you're also giving up your friend's information as well.

If any potential employer asks for your Facebook account information, just inform them that your social network would not appreciate giving out their information to a 3rd party, and you think it would be a violation of their trust in you.

[CGamesPlay]

The reason that this sort of legal action is necessary is because the kind of people who are being asked this aren't the kind of people who can walk into any company in the valley and get another job. In those situations, the employee doesn't have any cards to play.

[JGailor]

I understand your point completely, and I agree with you. It still doesn't change the fact that when you give up your Facebook account information, you are not just surrendering up your personal information, you are giving up the personal information of everyone in your network that has chosen to share with you. It's a breach of trust with that network.

[prophetjohn]

If an employer asks for my Facebook password (or equivalent, as I don't use Facebook), I plan to tell them that I don't appreciate being asked to give out my information. I don't want to work for a company where I need to put spin on an argument to have them not violate my privacy.

[wtvanhest]

This is not about you, I or other highly employable people. This is about person trying to get any job they can.

[pyre]

It's also about law enforcement jobs where they might hold it against you if you refuse. You have a right to refuse, but then they can just deny you the job because you "obviously" have something to hide.