June 5, 2009

Don’t underestimate the gap between what an employer considers a risk to its reputation and what a worker sees as harmless fun. It’s big enough to accommodate a courtroom.

And no forum has proved as fertile a legal land mine as the Internet. Social networking sites, from Facebook to YouTube to personal blogs, have yielded a crop of lawsuits by employers scrambling to protect their image or intellectual property in a rapidly evolving digital age...