Comments on: Should You "Spy" on Employees Through Social Networking Sites?

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:45:20 +0000

My former boss creeped me out when she asked me if I had signed an online petition regarding animal rights. I was like, “Yeah, why, did you Google me?” and she said, “Something like that…”

By: social networking

social networking — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:59:45 +0000

A employer should never check someones profile on a social networking site it’s there personal life who cares what people do on there own time social networking sites are great for being able to show who you really are and it should be left as that.

By: Daran

Daran — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:02:38 +0000

Follow-up question: if you answered no, does your answer change if mistakes by the employees in question can endanger lives (working with either medicines, chemicals or heavy machinery)?

By: COD

COD — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:51:41 +0000

I don’t see how it is any worse than googling somebody. If the data is out there and readily available you can’t blame somebody for looking…

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:55:44 +0000

Should they? No, as a matter of… I dunno, staying pleasantly human.

Will they? No doubt in many cases.

It’s the same thing over and over. If you wouldn’t want the worst possible people knowing, don’t put that info out publicly connectable to you, at least not easily so.