More on MySpace

In case you haven't figured it out, employers can read your MySpace page - or your Facebook page, or your blog - just as easily as everyone else on the Internet. And though you might think Jello wrestling at midnight Saturday is a purely personal activity, your boss or that firm that's been wooing you might have different ideas. This has all been written about before, of course, but Don Aucoin of the Boston Globe has a particularly readable piece about it in today's paper. It all boils down to a simple notion: Whatever your ideas about "personal space," if you post something online, it's probably not going to be all that private.

"MySpace is a social site. The whole idea is to make some friends, or to have old friends find you, on a social level," says Kordana, 34, who also works as an actress. "And we should be completely free to do that. But on a professional level, we're having to censor ourselves from potential future employers. How much control do we want the companies to have over our private lives? If you are proving yourself in the workplace and you are not putting the image of your employer at risk, I feel that your private life is yours."

Nicely said. But don't count on it.

MySpace vs. Workplace [Boston Globe]