A new phenomenon has been sweeping job interviews.  Many employers are checking out perspective employee’s social media profiles…and it gets worse…

The Maryland Department of Corrections has taken to asking job seekers to log-on during the interview so they can see information found behind the privacy filter. But some companies are going even further, asking applicants to give them their username and password.

If you’re getting the heby-jebies you’re not alone. Facebook is taking offense to this and posted on their privacy page that they will  ”take action to protect the privacy and security of our users.” To Facebook, this is an invasion of privacy (ironic right?). But that doesn’t mean they’re wrong.

Privacy filters are there for a reason and Facebook is threating legal action against anyone who tries to violate it:

Facebook takes your privacy seriously. We’ll take action to protect the privacy and security of our users, whether by engaging policymakers or, where appropriate, by initiating legal action, including by shutting down applications that abuse their privileges.

However, there is an easy way around this, don’t put anything on Facebook, Twitter, or Youtube that you wouldn’t want your grandmother to see.