Be careful what you write.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-15426919

The link above is to a story published on the BBC news website on the 24TH of October. The issue at hand here is that an employer took action against a an employee who stated that he worked for them on his Facebook and then went on to give views they did not deem an appropriate representation of them so they promptly demoted him. This poses a dilemma because although his views are less than favourable we have, in this country the right to freedom of speech and Mr Smith believes that this made him well within his rights to express this belief in particular. However the company are arguing that these beliefs were representing them and as he stated he worked for them and was well aware of an updated version of their code of conduct which included social networking he is in the wring. So there are two sides to this but the really interesting thing is the fact that social networking is now such a big part of the world we live in that people are now being held accountable for what they say, in a place where they thought they do have the right to freedom of speech to express ore controversial opinions, something they might have kept to themselves in the work place. Perhaps this is a positive thing because companies are now able to see whether people do not fit with the views they hold but whether or not the man deserved to lose his job for it is a difficult one. Social networking is beginning to infiltrate all aspects of society and it often seems that perhaps people should be more careful what they write. The freedom of speech argument isn't always going to be there for you.