Employers should be able to look at an employees’ MySpace or Facebook page because they have the right to know what kind of a person is working for them.

Many people lie to their employers when they get hired to make themselves seem better than they are.

Sometimes they lie about their level of experience, or maybe even their age.

Other times, the employees do things in their free time that are against work policy that may reflect badly on the company.

If a person takes a picture of themselves smoking a joint while wearing their Best Buy employee shirt and puts it on their MySpace profile, it reflects badly of Best Buy.

Or maybe an employee calls in sick to work, but then writes a MySpace blog about how wasted they were at Cindy’s party the night before, so they called in sick.

If an employee wants to post embarrassing or illegal stuff on their Facebook or MySpace accounts, then they shouldn’t be surprised that everyone, including their employer, might see it.

That does not mean that people shouldn’t take pictures of themselves doing stupid or funny things.

It just means that they shouldn’t make a new photo album in their MySpace showing the 10 stages of drunkenness they were in last Friday night.

In America, people are free to say whatever they want and look at almost everything they want, including Myspace profiles.

In America, employers and companies have that same right and are legally able to look at an employees’ profile.

But since this is America, employees also have the right to set their profile to private so that their employers cannot see how much fun they are having outside of work.

If an individual wishes to keep their online personas private, that individual may simply use an alter-ego or avoid linking blogs and such to their e-mail addresses.

Staying off of social networking Web sites entirely is, of course, the best way to avoid any awkward moments between an individual and a potential employer.

The Internet is a free, uncensored utility that any person with computer access may use to serve any given purpose.

Therefore, anyone who is penalized for their lewd content can only blame themselves for forgetting that in the cyber-world, someone is always monitoring your activity.

It is all a fair game online.