There have been numerous reports lately about employers checking up on employees or potential employees on Facebook, MySpace, and other forms of social media. I do not have a problem with this in principle. I am one who has always believed that you should be real wherever you are. If the real you is a crazy, backbiting, vendetta-seeking drunk, it is going to catch up with you.
Being denied employment because someone found out ahead of time instead of firing you later might actually do you a favor. It might just give a person the motivation he needs to get his life together. What bothers me more than extreme cases like that is, in most instances, the information that people provide about themselves on Facebook and other social media sites is personal information.
