New Software For Employers To Monitor Facebook

An anonymous reader writes "The NY Times reports that a new service called Social Sentry has been released to monitor employees' Facebook and Twitter accounts for $2 to $8 per employee. The service also plans to support MySpace, YouTube and LinkedIn by this summer. 'Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute, a research and advocacy group, called the automatic monitoring of social networking a "disaster," and predicted that it would lead to people being fired for online griping, the airing of political views and other innocuous conversation. There is a tendency to react to an off-color joke or complaint that appears online more harshly than to the same comment made in a cafeteria or company picnic.'"

Comments

Re:Hardly enough.

[Archangel Michael]

Or, You're a Conservative Libertarian and your bosses are Hardcore Politically Correct Socialists (The f'n crazy kind running the country right now)?

Oh right, because only (R)s can be f'n crazy, and anyone far enough left is completely sane.

Dude, you should be libertarian, because the (D) left is just as bad as whatever you think (R) right is, perhaps even worse (at the moment) because they have power (for the moment).

And don't think it doesn't happen, because all you have to do is go to any major University. Open minds for sure (except if you disagree).