Facebook Usage

Start being careful with the friends you have on Facebook as well as the things you post on Facebook in future.

Research show that there is a growing number of cases of employees losing jobs due to their unwariness in status updates in Facebook.

Last week, an employee took a sick leave from work because his favourite band was in town. His friends took photos of them together at the concert, and a day after posted it to his Facebook page. Unfortunately, his colleagues saw his photos and word about his faked sickness spread to his supervisor. In the end, he was fired.

Other employee was ticked off by his boss after photos of him enjoying a steak dinner at a restaurant was seen by his boss. He was supposed to be on sick leave and resting at home due to diarrhea.

With this advantage networking sites bring, the police have also set up a page in Facebook to collect information about crime cases which suspects post on their pages.

Lawyers have also been using Facebook to their advantages. In fact, almost half of divorce cases being brought up to court have at least some association with Facebook information gathering.

Many netizens have been angry over such incidents because Facebook should be a place where people expresses their personal thoughts and feelings freely without any public invasion of personal privacy.

Facebook should also be something out-of-work for personal leisure and networking. It is certainly not a convenient tool of crime case-breaking, and a easy platform for employers to catch employees red-handed.

Where Facebook was once a place where people can freely relieve their thoughts, it has now become a restricted site by the police watching. Where Facebook was once a escapade and a getaway to relive stress, people must now carefully pen down what they are saying - the true purpose of a networking site has been destroyed.

It is indeed a pity employers have to turn to such methods to control their people. If they are motivated enough to work towards a common goal, I don't think a decent steak dinner would affect their performance, drive and effort in work the next day.

I hope there would be clearer lines between work and play... Play shouldn't involve stress from work and the pressuring monitor from employers.