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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.'"
Hey, people in the work place have to keep their mouths shut already about politics without Facebook.
This isn't about monitoring people facebooking at work, it's about monitoring facebook profiles around the clock to check up on your employees' personal lives and rants.
Perhaps you should actually learn about our founding fathers views on slavery before you condemn them.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
If you think the current regime is "socialist" you need to repeat high school Both R's and D's are center-right economically and both are very authoritarian
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
I'd feel like I was deceiving people. I always use my real, full legal name when doing things online and writing posts on social websites.
"Joe NotAnActualSpammer has just planted a fucking tree on his farm!"
As of right now, my main Facebook page has exactly 1 item that I might be interested in....my brother in law posted some pictures he took on spring break. The rest is all kinds of nonsense. And that is with being selective about friend requests. I have 21 "Friends" (still probably too many) and 47 "Friend Requests". I can't imagine how much garbage would be on the page with 68 cabbage planting friends.
Getting sick of Farmville notifications? Click the Hide button next to the notification then click the Hide Farmville button silly! Quit complaining about a problem you can solve with 2 clicks.
One convenient locations...in Africa.
Uhhhhh. Ok, so I'm an idiot. I went plugging through the options one day to try to find a way to not display certain things. I assumed the "Hide" just meant to hide that one post.
But still....My page now looks like "Relative A doesn't like being sick", "Person 1 commented on their own status", "Person 2 likes Person 3's status.", "I just won 1 Swagbuck" (Ok, something new to hide), "Relative B says it is going to be a Marvelous Monday.", ."Person 4 commented on PersonIDon'tKnow's album.", followed by 6 more "Commented on Status" posts. I can't hide those unless I hide the person.
I'm sure it works out well for some people. For myself, even after knocking out the Farmville updates, it is just a wild mess of random clutter. When I open my Gmail account I see 23 messages without scrolling down at all. Of those 23, 16 of them are things that I have read/will read. Four of them are "You have a comment on Slashdot" alerts (I am going to shut those off), one is a receipt from an online order I placed, one is a weekly mailer from a discount electronics site (I glance at this about half the time), and one is a newsletter that I used to read but have not been lately. Considering the messages that ARE from real people contain actual useful content that I want/need to know, it is much more of a White Listed inbox for me than my Facebook account is.