It can be used against you? Whats your opinion?

[mcantar18c]

I understand where you come from and tend to agree with you (my time, my business) but as an employee of any business you represent that business at work and away. Especially if you deal with customers face to face. "Hey there is that guy that sold me a car last week wasted and acting like an ass at the game." Plants a seed in your mind next time you are shopping for that car. So your employer should have all the freedom in the world to hire and fire whom they want to represent their business. Sucks but if it comes down to a pic on fb or something then they were just looking for a reason to fire you for since it is so hard to fire anyone today.

Amazing how some of your views change when you actually own a business. A lot of that BS your boss was telling you makes some sense.

Since when? Colorado is an at-will state... an employer can fire anyone, at any time, with any - or no - amount of notice, for any (nondiscriminatory) reason. They don't need an excuse. The only reason they'd find it hard to fire someone is if they don't have the balls to do it.

[pdr240]

It has often crossed my mind that I should deactivate my FB account.

[SA Friday]

Just FYI using "fake" or "pseudo" names on the internet can be considered breaking the law.

A line about "unauthorized access" being illegal, can be anything from illegally accessing the White House's website to using a false name during an online registration process.

Uh, no. Fraud is simply "theft through paperwork", fraud by computer is the same misrepresentation but with digital forms. Just accessing opens source info with a fake name isnt theft and doesn't fall under this code. There has to be an element of unlawful financial gain involved in the act of accessing and misrepresenting yourself. Trust me here. After running fraud cases for a couple of years, they are much more complicated than just using a false identity.

[Scanker19]

It has often crossed my mind that I should deactivate my FB account.

+1

[Ronin13]

Uh, no. Fraud is simply "theft through paperwork", fraud by computer is the same misrepresentation but with digital forms. Just accessing opens source info with a fake name isnt theft and doesn't fall under this code. There has to be an element of unlawful financial gain involved in the act of accessing and misrepresenting yourself. Trust me here. After running fraud cases for a couple of years, they are much more complicated than just using a false identity.

Exactly, just like if I signed up on a blogging website or twitter and used a false identity (just to mask my real one) it would be no different than if I wrote a book under a pseudonym... Many authors do it now and they're not in jail.

[Irving]

Since when? Colorado is an at-will state... an employer can fire anyone, at any time, with any - or no - amount of notice, for any (nondiscriminatory) reason. They don't need an excuse. The only reason they'd find it hard to fire someone is if they don't have the balls to do it.

You'd think that was the case, but he is right. Had a boss tell lies about me to get me fired. I don't know if she didn't have the authority or what, but firing someone out of a corporation is not that simple. Company policy gets in the way.

[DD977GM2]

Personally I've gotta go with the common sense rule on this one. My FB account has very few friends, who are actually real friends and two of them are people I work with.

My thought is this; if I wouldn't say it at work in front a customer or my owner then it isn't going on FB. Lately some of political views have started to end up on my wall as my frustration with "the man" grows. I've kept it in check enough not to piss anyone off.

It's the internet though. Once you put it out there, it will be forever and for anyone to use against you.

Definatly a good rule of thumb for FB and the like.
I post manly political stuff like the billboard pic I posted on here the other day or pics of the sunrises or sunsets etc from work. I love to piss off the liberals
that are on my friends list, but they know I do it for fun as they are mostly my family, cousins etc.