The last sentence in this article says that the boss of this travel agency now monitors her employees’ FB pages. Is allowing employer access to one’s social media a condition of employment there? I’d say no to that. An employer who wants to supervise the public and private utterances of her employees is a micromanaging control freak and must be a nightmare to work for.
I don’t have Facebook, so when my employer asked to see it, I honestly said I didn’t have a Facebook account.
Linkedin versus Freerepublic versus other social media are all separate.
I’m glad Freerepublic exists. I can discuss political matters and it isn’t linked to work and so forth. But employers are pushing more and more on the political correctness, where giving non-PC opinions is forbidden by HR because it is “sexist, homophobic, etc”.