A Philly faux pas?
In our efforts to cover sports coverage, we would be remiss to overlook the social-networking phenomenon and how it too relates to sport.
If you are a college student looking for a job, you've probably heard to not post any "compromising" photos of yourself in case a potential employer happens to Google your name.
We're seeing a similar Facebook casualty with the now former Philadelphia Eagles employee, Dan Leone, getting fired from his job for his negative post about the football club on his Facebook page. In a story reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the game-day employee apparently posted his disagreement (to put it nicely) with the Eagles' inability to sign free agent, and Eagle-staple, Brian Dawkins.
With the attention it's getting, we may not have heard the last of this story. We can certainly expect some Eagle-hating Facebook groups to pop-up.
This certainly shows that professional teams are paying attention to these social networks and recognizing that negative messages, no matter what form they take can have negative impact. It should be interesting to see if these pro clubs, like other businesses, take to social networking as a way to get their own information out there
So who is right and who is wrong? Should you really consider your Facebook/social network profile to be private information if it's publicly accessible? How do you pro teams using social network sites?
