facebook profile equals background check,invasion of privacy

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Everyday people struggle to get a job.Employment rate is still high and the recession is still here.Employers are now thinking about using face book profiles as background checks on their employees or soon to be employees.This is outrageous because employers are doing this to cut back their spending.It costs money to run a background check on someone.This shouldn't happen because it's an invasion of privacy of someone's personal life,not work.If a person drinks but doesn't drink on the job,he can get fired simply because he posted a picture on face book drinking a beer and having a good time.To the employer,that's bad behavior,even though the employer drinks in his personal life.It's not fair,ever body needs a chance.People who have misdemeanors can't even get a job but everybody else who works there has misdemeanors.It just doesn't make sense,people need to come together in times like these and make a stand to let employers know that they are not gods,but human and to stay out of the privacy of others because the employer wouldn't like it if we did it to them.keep face book privacy private.If that's the case then, and my privacy is breached without permission,your right i'll get a lawyer and press an issue because my personal life has nothing to do with my work environment.I can understand the employer doing background checks on face book if the employee has problems at work such as being late all the time,smells like alcohol or drugs..common sense,if your personal life is effecting you at work,then a background check or investigation needs to be done before your business is jeopardized by that employee with personal life issues.The background check can have some pros and cons to it.I'd like to know some more pros and cons on this.