Do students really want parents and schools able to access their facebook? More and more controversies arrive daily regarding facebook. Students should not have to deal with that. Colleges now even look at their applicant’s facebook.

“People own their information and should control who they share it with” Colby Smith told the Tiger Transcript. Employers have also begun to look through your pictures on facebook in order to see the type of person you are. However, is it fair for one to judge you from your facebook?

“Facebook is a way for us to communicate with our friends and classmates; we shouldn’t have to worry about colleges and potential managers creeping through our facebook making sure we are good kids.  There are many other ways that they can find that out.  If I don’t get in to college because of a couple stupid pictures on my facebook, then that’s just wrong in my own opinion.” Colby Smith added.

I went to a couple of local businesses yesterday to ask if they ever look at perspective workers through their facebook. A T.J. Maxx manager stated “We don’t like looking at our employees’ facebooks, only because that doesn’t really show who you are when you are working, and that’s more of your personal life.  So we don’t mind keeping it that way.” 

The other day, following my shift at Market Basket I asked my boss Mr. Sevigny the same question. His response was priceless “I don’t have a facebook so I really don’t care. I feel that the people we hire should also have a personal life of their own so I feel that checking people’s facebooks is unnecessary”.

These are just a few of the local businesses’ opinions regarding facebook; but, I’m interested in finding out more and you should be too!