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]

SOME of the founding fathers kept slaves. SOME did not. Because it is easy to lump everyone into the same basket, regardless of views.

I'm sure some of your views will seem just as silly 200 years from now as owning slaves does today. Like selling your children's lives into slavery to the state, in some Politically Correct "right" to take from others to support whatever whimsical utopian viewpoint you have.

You do know that the crime that was recently passed as Obamacare is selling your children's future into slavery to the state, and elitists running everything?

You may like that idea, but when it fails, it will look just as silly as Slavery does today.

Re:Hardly enough.

[Wyatt Earp]

Or suppose you are a Republican and work with hardcore Progressives (the fraking crazy kind). They see a friend of yours on Facebook who is a hunter and then at work the next day they drill you about how the workplace is violence and firearms free.

Then when its winter you come to work wearing a parka with a wetlands camouflage pattern (hey its Columbia Titanium and was on sale), you are asked very pointedly if you are a "killer".

Oh they treat you differently.

Re:Hardly enough.

[Archangel Michael]

You're Canadian. When you have to wait for health care, you can afford to come to the US and not wait, you can. Now you don't even have that option.

And Insurance is a scam. But it isn't the Insurance companies fault, it is the system that gives huge deductions and tax exemptions for companies to offer insurance.

And when Insurance covers EVERYTHING it is no longer insurance, but rather cost pooling. Cost Pooling does nothing but drive up costs for everyone. Basic Econ 101 stuff.

You want to make Health Care Affordable again? Medical Savings accounts, High Deductable and Real Inusurance, Price models that reflect reality (One price for everyone, insurred or not.

And why not allow paraprofessionals like nurses, and paramedics to perform basic health care needs in Triage?

And everyone should pay something to see a doctor, no more "I'm poor" or "I'm Illegal Immigrant ACLU SUE"

If we're going to go down the "Free Health Care for All" route (which is a bold face lie), then we ought to delineate what is a Health Care Right, what is not a health care right. I don't want taxes going to support Jane's boob job or, nor Johnnies sex change operation.

If we want to help little kids with horrible diseases, I'm okay with that. But I don't want to pay for some 80 year old grannies new hip.

The problem is that people are blaming insurance companies for being cost pooling services and skimmiing 4% off the top, instead of blaming the system as it is setup.

Single payer doesn't fix anything, just changes where the problems are.

Re:Hardly enough.

[Archangel Michael]

Google "free health care for all americans" click Rassmusen poll link. (too long for URL here, thanks /.)

Right, there is no such thing as "free" . However it is being marketed as such. The poll above is a marketing tool by liberals to frame the debate.

See my signature for more details.