Googling job candidates and checking out their social networks has become a standard part of many companies' hiring process. This is especially important for small businesses, since your staffs are small, and every job is crucial. But lately everyone has been buzzing about what happens when companies go one step further and ask job applicants (as well as current employees) for their social media passwords.

Obviously this didn’t go over very well with the American worker. In a recent American Pulse survey, here's what employees or job candidates said they would do if a business asked them to share their social media passwords:

• 40.2 percent would either quit their jobs or withdraw their applications.

• 16.1 percent would delete their social media pages.

• 10.9 percent would share the passwords.

• 10.5 percent would first edit their social media profiles, then hand over the passwords.