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Social networking when taken from the viewpoint of connecting people works; it is a brilliant way of getting people together across various age and demographic groups. The side effect of all this is that as we become more highly connected to each other we do tend to end up living in a fish bowl, everyone knows what we publicly post all the time. This has lead to people getting in trouble.

According to Mashable 8% of companies that were surveyed and are tracking and using social networking have sacked employees who have violated company rules because of their activities with social networking. For some companies the use of social networking can be generally annoying leading to employees being blocked from using social networking at work. Or dangerous to the company because the employee violated some rule that needs to be obeyed or legal requirement for publicly held companies. It is very easy to be fired for social networking. The idea of a public and private profile though is nothing new, but it is time for a wider adoption of the c