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

The airing of political views

[Wyatt Earp]

Hey, people in the work place have to keep their mouths shut already about politics without Facebook.

Re:Jeebus - just block facebook, it's not that har

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Hardly enough.

[ArhcAngel]

Perhaps you should actually learn about our founding fathers views on slavery before you condemn them.

Re:Easy enough to avoid

[nine-times]

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.

Re:Easy enough to avoid

[chickenarise]

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.