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Title: How Tinkerbell's tryst and other tales from Facebook can affect you.(LAW JOURNAL 2009.)
Author: M. Robin Davis
Publication: Business North Carolina (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2009
Publisher: Business North Carolina
Volume: 29 Issue: 5 Page: 36(2)

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What started as a graduate project to offer electronic-communication networking to college students has grown into a mode of communication used worldwide by people of all ages. Social-networking sites are becoming a preferred mode of communication, and all sources indicate that they are here to stay. That means it is increasingly difficult to keep private and professional lives completely separated. Consider these real-life scenarios.

Tinkerbell's tryst. Late Wednesday afternoon, Colin sent an e-mail informing his boss that he would be out of work for a couple of days because of a family emergency. That weekend, Colin's boss was surfing Facebook and found a picture of Colin in full Tinkerbell fairy gear--bare-chested in a green turn with fairy...