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Florida is Looking At Your Facebook Character and Fitness

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Is your Facebook page ready for your character and fitness exam? If you are applying to the Florida state bar, you might want to update your profile. Over on True/Slant, Kash examines employers who want to use Facebook against you:

[N]ot all legal types respect Facebook privacy. The Florida Bar Examiners, the group that decides who gets to become a lawyer in Florida, is considering forcing some wannabe lawyers to be subjected to a thorough social networking investigation prior to their being knighted esquires.

Florida bar examiners will look for evidence of substance abuse in applicants with a history of those problems, and will of course check to see if you would like to overthrow the government.
Click on the link below for Kash’s picture thoughts.
Should it be illegal for employers to check job applicants’ Facebook profiles? [True/Slant]
Earlier: What’s Up with the Flori-duh February Bar Exam?

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