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1. FRIEND OR FOE By Nick Hoban, Justin Cowan, Nick Yeager, and SimonaIskander

2. Facebook for Businesses Used to check backgrounds of current or future employees. Easy way for people to communicate. Allows work to be accomplished without being in the same room.

3. Pros Companies are able to check out a person before hiring them. Able to make sure there is no hidden history. Companies can look at photos to see if the applicant does anything illegal.

4. Pros cont. Job may require someone who isn’t bias. Open minded No specific views on things (religion, race, ect.) May help find out if someone is more/less qualified for the position.

5. The Downside of Facebook There are a lot of reasons why employers won’t hire a person. From pictures you post as well as the ones your friends post. Even the grammar a person uses in a post can be taken into consideration.

6. The Downside of Facebook Facebook is being used as a way to screen perspective employees Employers go through a person’s profile and judge that person on what they find. They will use what they find to determine if they are the type of person they want to hire.

7. Why Employers Disregarded Candidates After Screening Online Candidate posted provocative or inappropriate photographs or information – 53% Candidate posted content about them drinking or using drugs – 44% Candidate bad-mouthed their previous employer, co-workers or clients – 35% Candidate made discriminatory comments – 26%

8. Why Employers Disregarded Candidates After Screening Online Candidate shared confidential information from previous employer – 20% 16% dismissed a candidate for using text language such as GR8 (great) in an e-mail or job application.

9. Legal Issues Related to Employment and Facebook Presumption of innocence in the Constitution of US follows from the 5th (No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury), 6th, and 14th amendments.

10. Legal Issues Related to Employment and Facebook A person can definitely have a case against an employer if he/she is denied employment base on assumptions from Facebook, if he/she can prove itwas the reason for denying employment. The person in case can hire a lawyer on a contingency fee which usually is 20-25% from the material damages a jury can decide to be paid.

11. Legal Issues Related to Employment and Facebook Nothing is private on Facebook in the case of a trial. In recent months, two state courts have granted defendants access to private photos and comments. Many employees that have been fired because of the information they shared on Facebook have sued their former employer.

12. Legal Issues Related to Employment and Facebook Not many that have been denied employment based on Facebook info have sued the potential employer yet Beside the 3 amendments in the Bill of Rights that portray this, there is not a legislation to make it illegal yet. Very soon a bill for networking sites will be proposed.

13. ETHICAL ANALYSIS How ethical are the employers?

14. Step 1: Identification of The Facts Who Did What? “Corporate and governmental [employers] infiltration of prospective employees [Facebook] profiles and the friends of prospective employees profiles,” to determine if they should employee them or not.

15. Step 2: Dilemma and Higher-Order Values Involved Dilemma: Employers are hiring/not hiring people based on the content post on their Facebooks. And Employers are tearing through current/ potential employees’ Facebooks, to try and find any vulgar or inappropriate content on their Facebooks.

16. Step 2: (Continued) Higher-Order Values Involved: The Higher-Order Value for the employer is protection of property. In that they want to make sure the person they hire is not someone who will cause physical to damage to their property or other employees. The Higher-Order Value for the employee is privacy. Do the employers really need to know their potential employees’ personal interests listed on their Facebook?

17. Step 3: Who are the Stakeholders? Who are the Players in the Game? The players are: The employers They do support infiltrating people’s Facebooks to make sure they do not hire a lunatic. The employees/Potential employees They do not support their Facebooks being infiltrated, because it is their personal material they may or may not want their employer to see.

18. Step 4: Options that YOU can take Take it to court Organize a Protest Organize Legal Case against the employers OR Delete Your Facebook They are Easy to delete or deactivate They cause procrastination Weird people creep on them anyone, aka Art Fifer

19. Step 5: Potential Consequences of your Options If you take it to courtyou could Lose a lot of money in legal cases OR If you delete your Facebook you could Drastically hurt your social life Not get tagged in like a million red cup pictures Be forced to make a Facebook anyway by your employer

20. So the Ethical Question being asked here is? Is it ethical for an employee to: Search an employee’s Facebook? Evaluate their Facebook friends? To Deny them employment based on content on their Facebook?

21. From the Employer’s side Using Facebook prevent you from hiring John Rambo Or Van Wilder