New Software For Employers To Monitor Facebook

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 29, 2010 @06:45AM from the poke-with-care dept.

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.'"

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Re:Easy enough to avoid by Hognoxious · 2010-03-29 07:09 · Score: 5, Funny

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).

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Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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