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 face book 本是提供給大學生的社交網站, 去年一間大學的學生因放了私人生活在face book 上而被視為影響校譽, 被令取消 face book 的 a/c.  而報導中亦指, 有不少顧主在聘用員工前, 都會在face book 或網上搜尋其個人資料.  個人生活真的與工作能力有關嗎 ?  有人質疑此是否影響了言論自由.  爭拗將會沒完沒了, 但, 在互聯網上, 很多事情都可以經搜尋器找到.  若不想別人知道的事, 還是小心好了.

 

” In one instance, he said, a group of students was caught after posting a photo of themselves with stolen property.

Police at other universities have staked out parties and other illegal activities through the site.

Businesses are also checking out students' Facebook and Myspace profiles when considering a new hire.

For that reason, some information is best left off the sites, Kent State's Seibert said.

“If you go on and on about the times you were stoned out of your mind or drunk driving, and an employer sees that … you might not get the job,” he said.

Erin Evans, a recruiter at the Worthington office of Act-I, a local staffing company, said it doesn't look at the Facebook profiles of potential hires.

But she stressed the importance of excluding information employers wouldn't want to see.

“Anyone can Google you and find many different things,” she said. “The Internet is open for everybody.”

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