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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.'"
I'm outraged that slashdot.org monitoring is being left out of this! We must petition this company to include /. in the monitoring! That way we can feel safe in the knowledge that we must all bow down to our-Facebook-Myspace-LinkedIn-Twitter-/.-monitoring Overlords
that they won't be monitoring the mygoatse site, where we all expose our, uh, management potential...
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
If we know which companies subscribe to the service, we have new additions to the list of companies to avoid working for.
4) Have two names, one for work and one for home.
(I learned this the hard way, since people called Archimedius Thrublepants-Kopovski aren't exactly common).
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
But that's no fun ;)
K Man
Holy crap, that's your name, TOO?
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Thankfully I made a typo. It should be Thrumblepants.
Big fat botties, I've done it again!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
WARNING! REPUBLICAN ALERT! REPUBLICAN ALERT! REPUBLICAN ALERT! WARNING!
A WARNING TO ALL MEN: Protect your bumholes! There are Republicans out and about! Do not enter airport washrooms. Do not enter churches. Be on the alert for unprovoked sodomy. Keep your pants on at all times.
A WARNING TO ALL WOMEN: Stay away from coat hangers, especially if pregnant. Hanging up clothes may be mistaken to be an abortion in progress.
A WARNING TO ALL CHILDREN: Keep all science and math textbooks hidden, especially science texts that delve into evolution. Wrapping such books in a fake Bible cover is recommended.
1. Don't use Facebook on company computers
2. Keep your profile private
3. Don't post work related topics on other user's profiles (they may not be private)
4. Don't use your real name at work.
Thanks for getting that off your back.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
Oh, if only there was a "+1, Flamebait that made me giggle" option...