This is another reason as to why I shouldn’t have a “personal” facebook account. First reason being, I don’t care to get in contact I knew in the past, life goes on, so get over it. Second, because of trolls checking up on you just to see where you stand in life. Today’s troll is your insurance company. Think twice about posting fun vacation picks or updating your status to, “I’m feeling great today” knowing the fact that you collect money for disability. How do you avoid this? Well since you already made yourself open to the public by opening up a facebook, twitter, or myspace account be careful as to what you post. There’s no such thing as privacy online. Facebook is good because if you are a female who wants to have an account just to stay in touch with friends and all of a sudden receives a random friend request from someone she doesn’t know, it’s probably a creeper. Enough said, here is the article…
Insurance companies are very fond of finding ways to avoid paying out any money on behalf of their customers. In fact, they employ people who are actually specialists at that sort of thing, and these people will go to great lengths to prevent their employers from having to pony up.
The Internet, in particular, has proved to be quite the goldmine for insurance industry snooping, as Nathalie Blanchard learned recently. This Canadian woman lost her health insurance benefits because the insurance company found photographs of her looking happy. On Facebook. And decided that these images were evidence that she was not actually depressed, and therefore was not entitled to benefits.
Insurance companies seize upon these social attitudes, and comb through the Internet to find evidence that their customers might have the audacity to have fun while being disabled. That photograph of you skiing with a grin on your face must mean that you don’t really have [condition]. The fact that you update a sporadic blog means that you can’t possibly have [condition]. That you admit to [something] must mean that [condition] is your fault and you violated [clause] in your insurance policy. The very fact that you do anything other than bemoaning your lot in life must mean that you’re not really disabled.
