Facebook or Career??

Facebook has over 400 million users and majority of them people use this new media to keep in touch with old and new friends. The upload pictures, videos, and write blogs; just like I'm doing now but can some of those items they post affect their career?

Many high school students have been told to be careful about what they put on their facebook page because colleges would research them. They could be rejected admission to a school, if they found their page offensive or inappropriate. Now employers are also checking on not only their current employees but applicants as well. Employers are giving their employees the ultimatum to either censor their facebook or not connect their job with their facebook. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/29/facebook.job-seekers/index.html They are even rejecting some applicants because of what is on their facebooks. So is this wrong? Does an employer have the right to reject an employee?

Yes. If that student or applicant wouldn't accurately represent their school or company. If they have pictures of drinking alcohol or indecently exposed, then yes they have the right but I do feel if that person is 21 or older, then they have a legal right to drink. It can also be argued that facebooks are social and not professional sites and shouldn't be judged. So facebook or career.