So I am looking for an internship for this summer and I've submitted a couple of applications. For some internships, they asked for a tweet or a link to the applicant's facebook page to presumably determine the applicant's social klout I would guess. So while I knew that some employers wanted to know how active a person was with social media, I was shocked to read an article which said that employers were asking for Facebook passwords from applicants during job interviews. This Associated Press reported that some companies and goverment agencies are asking for apllicants' passwords in order to log in and look around as the user. Apparantly troubled by this report, Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut in an another Associated Press article said they were calling on the Justice Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to start investigations.
Now I suppose that, no I cannot come up with any reason why companies would ask for an applicant's password. Social media is an increasingly important part of most companies' efforts to increase their brand image among other things but I think asking for a password to verify an applicant's  social media credentials is going a bit too far. What do you think?

One word, Pinterest. For something i had never heard of, it was surprising to notice it more than twice yesterday, first in an article by Mashable's ceo Pete Cashmore about why Pinterest is 2012's hottest website. Pinterest was launched almost two years ago and was under the radar until the Silicon Vally news sites made mention of it. If like me you hadnt heard of it until now, Pinterest is, according to its website, a virtual pinboard or in the words of Pete Cashmore, "a visual social network that organizes images by topic and lets you reshare with just one click." Pinterest seems more interesting than I have made it sound so the less written the better. It could be the new big thing sooner than later so check it out here!