Caution and prudence in online postings

College level writing assignment must include correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.

We’re all learning–many of us the hard way–that we have to be careful about what we post on social network sites. Employers are increasingly perusing the Facebook and other social network postings of employees and job applicants (see, e.g., the article at http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-20/job-applicants-facebook/53665606/1). Legal professionals have to be careful about postings for other reasons as well. Read this article about lawyers getting into in trouble for online postings: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us/13lawyers.html?_r=1&hp. What does this article teach us as legal professionals about using caution and prudence in online postings, even in our non-professional lives?