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:Hardly enough. by einhverfr · 2010-03-29 07:45 · Score: 1, Troll

Simpler solution:
1) Don't work for assholes.....

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Re:Hardly enough. by argStyopa · 2010-03-29 07:58 · Score: 0, Troll

Or they note that you're posting at 2:06 in the afternoon which means that you're SUPPOSED TO BE AT WORK FINISHING THAT REPORT THAT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE ON MY DESK FIRST THING THIS MORNING JOHN PARKER.
Coward? Perhaps. (Well, he IS clearly a Democrat, so that's kinda redundant.)
Anonymous? Not so much.

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