Google Latitude is a great product, with serious flaws. Although you can let others know how you are doing and where you are, this can be easily abused. The main concern is predators. Even if you do not give out your location, the data is still there and a hacker can track you. This creates enormous concerns in regards to privacy and well-being. The same applies to facebook. With images of yourself on the web, it makes it even harder. Predators will impersonate someone else and get to know you as you know them and when it comes to meeting them, only a world of pain will await you. Predators will always be there and now, it is easier than ever.
Employers should use social networking sites to research possible employees. This provides more insight into the person and the best descisions need to be made. Anything put on the web is public knowledge. However, employers will have to realize that no one is perfect. Everyone will have flaws, hard or easy to find, on the internet. Once something bad is found, a job may be lost and given to no one else. That is a problem that may be caused by social networking. Employers must realize that everyone has flaws but it is the performance that counts.
