 do you feel it is ok for employers to use social media to acquire private information about potential employees  yes no undecided facebook private or public  there is no private information which a potential employer is able to see if a potential employer or some other stranger is able to see information on a facebook the information viewed is public not private the owners of facebook pages choose whether their information is public or private this is true in the information about us such as employment education marital status birthday etc our photos our friends phone number email address our likes etc and we choose point by point who can see it whether only the person whose fb page it is friends friends or friends or the public similarly every single time we post a status update a link a photo we have the opportunity to indicate who can see it again only the person whose page it is friends friends of friends public or we can customize it to specific lists or we can only let specific person s see it and we can exclude its visibility to specific person s  