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The use of facebook, youtube, and myspace are personal and should remain just that. No company should base their action of hiring or firing someone on personal issues and statements on a website. Granted if they are a risk to society or the employee said something that should be taken care of, that would be understandable.
One's personal life though does not always affect one's professional life. There are many accounts where people have a very bad home life and are excellent employees. It is my belief that if a person is willing to work and proves they can work and work well, their personal life should not affect their chances of maintaining a job.
When you go in for a job interview you have to bring your application and your resume which have previous employers and references on them. Any information that a company needs they can get from those. One's personal life should remain personal, like I have stated; if they can work hard, well, and accurately then why let something you see on a website affect their job opportunity.
I know from personal experience that not everything on these sites are accurate. Someone could just be having a bad day and post something and it not really have any reference to them except the bad day they are having.
There's that concept and the concept that people will tend to use these sites when they are angry and can say hurtful and rude things because they are mad. This could really make a good person really look bad and it's all because of someone else's anger but the business could use it against the employee. When in fact the employee did nothing wrong.
Websites can be very misleading, look at all the ones that promote jobs and turn out to be scams. Or ones that look user friendly and turn out to have a huge virus attached to them that wrecks a computer. All in all employers should use a resume, an application, and an interview to establish a knowledge of the employee not a personal website.

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