http://blogs.gartner.com/debra_logan/2009/05/07/what-goes-on-facebook-stays-in-facebook-forever/ A Member of The Gartner Blog Network Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:18:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://blogs.gartner.com/debra_logan/2009/05/07/what-goes-on-facebook-stays-in-facebook-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-34 ETO Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:35:03 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/debra_logan/?p=29#comment-34 Well, guess what. All of my friends will know about this ASAP. Not a fair practice after promising that all info is confidential. There are laws against this. Well, guess what. All of my friends will know about this ASAP. Not a fair practice after promising that all info is confidential. There are laws against this.

]]> http://blogs.gartner.com/debra_logan/2009/05/07/what-goes-on-facebook-stays-in-facebook-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Benjamin Wright Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:24:06 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/debra_logan/?p=29#comment-24 Debra: Facebook (and other social networking) is so easy; it comes so naturally to some people. Inevitably they will use it to transact serious business. In fact, I've documented one example of an employer terminating an employee by way of a Facebook message! Legally speaking, that notice of termination is a business record. From a legal governance perspective, business records like that need to be retained. This issue raises difficult records policy issues for organizations. But I believe organizations are wiser to try to capture the records than to ban Facebook as a business medium. http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2009/05/facebook-as-a-business-record.html What do you think? --Ben Debra: Facebook (and other social networking) is so easy; it comes so naturally to some people. Inevitably they will use it to transact serious business. In fact, I’ve documented one example of an employer terminating an employee by way of a Facebook message! Legally speaking, that notice of termination is a business record. From a legal governance perspective, business records like that need to be retained. This issue raises difficult records policy issues for organizations. But I believe organizations are wiser to try to capture the records than to ban Facebook as a business medium. http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2009/05/facebook-as-a-business-record.html What do you think? –Ben

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