The National Labor Relations Board has filed a court case to determine whether Facebook can get you fired. The board filed a complaint against American Medical Response of Connecticut, which terminated an employee after she vented about another co-worker on Facebook.
Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites are no longer used primarily by college and high school kids. While many users ensure that co-workers and bosses can’t access their private information, there are others are unfamiliar with how to change their privacy settings.
If you use Facebook, you may have noticed that the site is now asking you to review and update your privacy settings. This is all part of a new campaign to give users even more control on who can and can not see their photos and information on the popular social networking website.
Facebook’s new privacy settings allow each user to set controls on individual photos and pieces of information on the site, which is a big step forward for Facebook privacy.But even for the most secretive Facebook user, in the tangled web of the Internet, things meant to be private often slip out.
Clearly companies have wised up to the fact that their online reputations, disseminated by customers and employees matter. But is it legal to police employees’ Facebook accounts and subject online interactions to the same scrutiny as what an employee says, in person, while on the job?
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