MSNBC is running a story about whether employers should check out the online profiles of prospective hires on sites like Facebook or MySpace. Nothing new there. The article ploughs the old ground about whether what's posted is somehow "private," and whether the snapshots of you being stupid after chugging 17 bottles of beer in 35 minutes - or whatever - should be held against you. In the comments, a lot of users argue that what you do in your personal time is no one's business but your own, and that the right to privacy encompasses the snapshots you posted your very own self on a public site.
Maybe it's not about privacy, though. Maybe it's about judgment. I mean, we can argue about what's private and what's not all we want, but at the end of the day if you post a picture for everyone to see, people are going to make judgments, whether we like it or not.
Job candidates getting tripped up by Facebook [MSNBC]
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