hear a lot of talk lately about how if you want to hire someone you checkout their myspace, facebook etc. well i how do you do that if its set to private? ok i don't know a lot about myspace, other than you can set it to private; however i know on facebook you can even make yourself unsearchable, so how do you find that person? also on facebook you can hide pictures, wall posts, status, etc. so can you get past that? i mean i thought facebook was privacy proof? why would they give you all those options if its not?
Many employers will check these things.. sites like that have differing levels of being locked. sometimes you don't have to be the person's friend to see pics.. employers are usually looking for the pics of the kegstands and bong rips. but if you keep it completely private and don't put a naughty pic for your main profile pic you should be alright.
They can ask for the candidate's permission to view private pages.
no, that is one way us employers check out potential employees.