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Dangers of Facebook

Jim Riley

1st March 2009

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There’s been a lot of rubbish written and said this week about the dangers of social networking sites, particularly about creating alienation or remapping the brains of children. But here is a far more immediate danger: potential conflict of interest between employee and employer.

Kimberley Swann, an office worker in her teens from Essex was sacked after she described work at her new job as boring on her Facebook page.

Watch the BBC video clip here.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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