New Software For Employers To Monitor Facebook

[Cephius]

As far as "keep stuff private" goes:

Someone where I lived thought it would be funny to post a video of him setting his hat on fire while at work. He DID keep it private in terms of who could see it, but it still got exposed. Someone on the friends list was watching it and someone else not on his friends list was in the real life room and saw the screen. The non-friend ended up copying the video, stood up on his soapbox about tax dollars, and sent it to the news stations. The news made a story out of it and multiple people got fired over it. (not just the person lighting it on fire, but the person filming it and I believe anyone watching it that could be identified from the video)

That's why I always tell people not to think that limiting access will always keep it private.

That's not a privacy issue, that's a "not doing stupid shit at work" issue.

[Ryany]

That's not a privacy issue, that's a "not doing stupid shit at work" issue.

It still could be applied to any other situation outside of work.

[Gregorio]

Right because you arn't posting your personal feelings about him right there in that quote...did you forget this is the internet too?

BG /= facebook. And you may have missed this part: "with no consideration of the consequences". What possible RL consequences could occur because of this conversation between two basically anonymous forum members?

[Beckwin]

You should also watch what you say to others. If you run your mouth about how awesome that party was last night on your friend's wall and their profile is set to public and some sort of search crawler stumbles on your name, it could still cost you.

this is a good point

also, more capitalist ventures into fucking you over based on social networking:

http://www.free-press-release.com/ne...269252653.html

The AA, an insurance broker, said publishing details of when your house is empty could "be regarded as a breach of your duty of care and would be seriously considered by an insurer".

If this is the case, it is reported that home insurance could increase by about 10% to take account of losses due to the use of social networking sites.

L&G research shows that 38% of users of social network sites have posted details of their holiday plans, and 33% say if they are aware for the weekend. Nearly a quarter (23%) have discussed holiday plans on pages accessible to the public. About 17% have posted residential addresses that can be seen by strangers.

don't talk about something as harmless as going on vacation, or you could see your home insurance go up!