That was incredible. With things like this I'm always clueless about how they go from the original idea to the finished animation. There are some wonderful people out there.
Just to add: if you give your password to someone, they are also allowed to look at personal message between you and other Facebook users, which are never displayed publicly - you can ONLY see them with a password. Not only would that be a violation of your privacy, it would be a violation of all the other friends with whom you've corresponded.
For this reason alone, you should NEVER be expected to give up your password.
Miss Cellania, you presumably have your permissions set so that anyone can take a look at your entire profile, pictures, etc. That's fine if that's what you want, and the interviewer probably wouldn't need your password to look at anything else. However, my FB account is set to what amounts to 'maximum lockdown' - anyone who isn't a FB 'friend' can only see my name and a photo. Nothing else. I just don't want strangers knowing my business, because it's MY personal business.
Asking for a FB password is completely wrong. First, as someone points out, it's against Facebook's own terms of service - you are simply not allowed to give your password to anyone else.
But even if you were allowed, it should not be a requirement to get a job. What anyone does in their personal life, which they choose to share with their FB friends, is THEIR business. Even if you have some stuff you wouldn't want an employer to see - well, that's exactly why you shouldn't have to show them your FB account! It's your personal, private diary, journal, call it what you will. FB is there so you can share the information you choose to share with the people you want to see it.
The 'safe' response (trying not to lose the chance of a job) is to say it's not allowed by Facebook. The better response is, of course, 'stick your job where the sun doesn't shine'!
Other ideas: if I am willing to trust you with MY password, will you trust me with the password to the company's financial systems? Or: if I was willing to hand over my password so easily, how could you ever trust me with confidential information about the company?
If they instead force you to 'friend' them so they can look at your profile, it's still not really okay, but if you really have to do it, make it clear that you will only give them access for a set number of days, after which they will be defriended again.
You could always say 'sorry I don't have a Facebook account' but if they've already found it you're out of luck.
This whole thing really is abuse of privacy and it should be stamped out.
Saying 'please' is so much a part of me that if I've picked up a single item and want to pay for it, rather than just handing it over and saying nothing I say "Just that, please", purely so that I can get the word 'please' out of my mouth!
However I don't do that if I have more than a few items at the supermarket, and I don't have any good reason for that. Perhaps it's because with a big basket of shopping other things are usually said, such as 'would you like any help your packing?' Maybe the 'just that, please' is my way of filling an awkward silence.
Saying 'you're welcome' is not at all commonplace in Britain - on the rare occasion that people have responded to my 'thank you' with 'you're welcome' it seemed out of place, and I certainly never expect to hear it. 'No problem' or 'that's okay' are far more common, and they don't sound casual to my ear, just polite.
Although our countries do have significant differences, one thing remains constant: 'please' and 'thank you' are never optional. I don't think you can over-use either of them.
PS I'm, pretty sure that responding to 'you're welcome' with 'I know I am' isn't the right thing to say!
I'd always considered the Dark Ages to be approximately 500-1000 and the Middle Ages to be 1000 to 1500, but perhaps that's because British history is neatly divided by the Norman conquest of 1066. I had no idea that many of the things we assume were around in those days were later inventions. I recently saw a series of TV programmes showing that personal hygiene actually got worse over the years as people stopped bathing themselves as often (public baths came to be seen as vulgar) and covered the dirt on their bodies with clean clothes instead.
All of the real TED Talks I've seen have had speakers who want to take the audience with them, to share their experiences and inspire others. This speaker would never make the grade - with his contempt for the audience and his arrogant demeanour he is exactly what TED is not.
I work from home and just sleep whenever I get tired, day or night. Great as that sounds, if I need to be somewhere for a particular time I have to plan ahead if my natural sleep cycle has started to cover the time that I need to be awake. Often in winter I don't see daylight because that's when I sleep and the days are so short!
I'm not sure I'd like to have two sleeps, mostly because I often feel like crap when I get out of bed so I'd rather not have to go through that twice in one day. Frequent naps though, but I was putting that down to age :)
Worst pronunciation I've heard of was by someone asking for directions to Loughborough (luff-buh-ruh) whose interesting interpretation was 'Looger-borooger'.
In other news, someone phoned me today and pronounced my surname (gizz-burn is the correct way) as if it started with J. I am not named after a bedroom-related skin complaint thanks very much!
For this reason alone, you should NEVER be expected to give up your password.
Asking for a FB password is completely wrong. First, as someone points out, it's against Facebook's own terms of service - you are simply not allowed to give your password to anyone else.
But even if you were allowed, it should not be a requirement to get a job. What anyone does in their personal life, which they choose to share with their FB friends, is THEIR business. Even if you have some stuff you wouldn't want an employer to see - well, that's exactly why you shouldn't have to show them your FB account! It's your personal, private diary, journal, call it what you will. FB is there so you can share the information you choose to share with the people you want to see it.
The 'safe' response (trying not to lose the chance of a job) is to say it's not allowed by Facebook. The better response is, of course, 'stick your job where the sun doesn't shine'!
Other ideas: if I am willing to trust you with MY password, will you trust me with the password to the company's financial systems? Or: if I was willing to hand over my password so easily, how could you ever trust me with confidential information about the company?
If they instead force you to 'friend' them so they can look at your profile, it's still not really okay, but if you really have to do it, make it clear that you will only give them access for a set number of days, after which they will be defriended again.
You could always say 'sorry I don't have a Facebook account' but if they've already found it you're out of luck.
This whole thing really is abuse of privacy and it should be stamped out.
However I don't do that if I have more than a few items at the supermarket, and I don't have any good reason for that. Perhaps it's because with a big basket of shopping other things are usually said, such as 'would you like any help your packing?' Maybe the 'just that, please' is my way of filling an awkward silence.
Saying 'you're welcome' is not at all commonplace in Britain - on the rare occasion that people have responded to my 'thank you' with 'you're welcome' it seemed out of place, and I certainly never expect to hear it. 'No problem' or 'that's okay' are far more common, and they don't sound casual to my ear, just polite.
Although our countries do have significant differences, one thing remains constant: 'please' and 'thank you' are never optional. I don't think you can over-use either of them.
PS I'm, pretty sure that responding to 'you're welcome' with 'I know I am' isn't the right thing to say!
I'm not sure I'd like to have two sleeps, mostly because I often feel like crap when I get out of bed so I'd rather not have to go through that twice in one day. Frequent naps though, but I was putting that down to age :)
In other news, someone phoned me today and pronounced my surname (gizz-burn is the correct way) as if it started with J. I am not named after a bedroom-related skin complaint thanks very much!
The part of the sign which says 'gyrrwch yn ddiogel' isn't exactly easy to pronounce either!