The argument could be made that something you post on Facebook could be detrimental to your company if it's considered reflective of their employees, which for PR terms is probably worse than employing a heroin junkie who takes four-hour naps in the men's room on his lunch break behind closed doors.

I suppose it depends on how one defines "damaging" in regards to job performance. Personal behavior becoming highly embarrassing for your employer has always been a reason for dismissal. If something is on a Facebook page but does not become widely known, does that qualify as embarrassing enough?

So where's the poll option for those of us who don't have a Facebook page?

I can't imagine not having facebook. I used to be really half-assed with it, but once I started using it regularly I became addicted.

If the entire purpose of a password is privacy, why should any legislation be restricted to banning a requirement to divulge a password be restricted to a single web site? It seems to me the responsible thing would be to vote against THIS bill. Except for extremely sensitive roles like the FBI and CIA...etc, an employer has no need to know my password to any account.

I use Facebook as e-mail basically. It would be less invasive if they opened my mail.

Its not strictly speaking a question of give the Facebook password, or not take the job ("live in poverty"). In a statistically significant number of instances, handing over one's Facebook password would pretty much ensure one wouldn't be hired anyway from a varying range of jobs (one obvious example that should hit home at this site is that with all the political polarization in this country, a lot of people with strong political views aren't going to hire someone with the opposing set of views, because they see anyone like that as "an asshole," and they don't want to hire "an asshole"). That's the real issue here ie., that corporate America can use Facebook as a tool to intellectually cleanse, as it were, any segment of the population they find undesirable, whether it be labor union enthusiasts, Christian Fundamentalists, or what-have-you.

I'm surprised I haven't seen this brought up more. You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account. - FaceBook Terms of Services

I'm surprised I haven't seen this brought up more. You will not share your password, (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account. - FaceBook Terms of Services Good catch! Let's see if anyone runs with it.