In a local free paper there was an article about how a job applicant did not get a job since his girlfriend wrote in her blog that that she hoped he did not get the job because she did not want to move. The newspaper angled the story to make it ominous – that the employer had “secretly” (that’s the word they used) read the girlfriends blog.
It’s totally amazing that this is even a story. Isn’t it totally natural that a would-be employer googles job applicants? I think so. It’s strange to think that some people see their public blogs as somehow being private…