Careful what you do - it may show on Facebook and get you FIRED

So! A friend was giving me a tour of the scary Faceboook and yes, the allure of it is the whole getting reconnected with old friends/classmates/co-workers/collegues. I must admit that it works because there are so many people on it. It was scary because it IS so effective. People DO want to show off what they're doing to other people. Unfortunately, unless you have privacy settings, stalkers and employers can take a look into your private life. I discovered that there is also going to be a facial recognition 'tagging' that's in the works - Polar Rose. Here's a good article on photo tagging privacy from the Harvard Law Review and a snippet:

Although these technologies are too new to have had any realworld consequences, their potential is readily apparent. Take one salient example: Catherine Bosley, a news anchor from Ohio, had suffered from several life-threatening ailments. After she underwent several surgeries and finally learned that she was going to live, she took a vacation with her husband to Florida. There, surrounded by strangers and possessed by the desire to do something exhilarating to celebrate her newfound life, she entered a “wet T-shirt” contest. As she described it, “[w]e thought it’d be our moment with a bunch of strangers.”
A year later, pictures and video from the contest were on the Internet and she was fired from her job. The station’s rationale was simple: “Catherine is a seasoned veteran who consciously chose to engage in behavior that she knew was inconsistent with the responsibilities of her chosen profession.”
Although Catherine Bosley received attention because of her public career, the lesson of the story is applicable to anyone: when employers or others have easy access to our most personal information, they may not like what they see. Thanks to facial recognition search engines, what happened to Bosley is likely to happen to others with greater frequency. The various facets of people’s lives, once kept at a distance, will collapse into one, and it will become apparent “how quickly a brief lapse in judgment can permanently destroy someone’s reputation.”