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Yet Someone Else Fired for Private Comments on MySpace


In the past we've shown plenty of examples of employees and students losing their jobs and receiving other sorts of punishment for comments and photos posted publicly on social networks like Facebook and MySpace. We've always advised you to lock down your security settings on these sites, but now it seems that's not enough, with the case of a woman getting fired for making comments on MySpace in private.

The woman, Doreen Marino, worked at a New Jersey restaurant and created a MySpace group with a number of her co-workers. In that group, Marino's colleagues all vented about their managers and, in some cases, their customers, too. The group was fully private and password protected.

When one of the group members granted access to one of the restaurant's managers, however, two workers at the restaurant lost their jobs. The fired workers are now taking their case to court and suing the restaurant.

Generally speaking, though, if you'd like to keep your job, and avoid all that hassle, then perhaps you should just be careful of what you say online -- regardless of privacy settings. [From: CNN]

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