Could Your Friendster Profile Be Ruining Your Career-I read it!

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Who among here have a Friendster account? Well,I have just read a very interesting article on a news paper which may help others on this site.It goes like this: Jobseeker Marie shares her experience: "I was looking forward to working with this company. I reached the second interview- the one with the hiring manager- and everything seemed fine. Then, I didn't received any call to come back for the final interview. My friend in the company said it might be because the hiring manager saw some stuff on my friendster profile that turned her off. Should companies spy on future employees on Friendster? Isn't that supposed to be just for social networking and not be mixed with our professional lives? "Reconsider what is in your friendster account" says Bong Austero of PNB. "You have to remove the stuff that you don't want your parents to see, or those that imply you consider work evil. It is not called "spying" because friendster accounts,like blogs,are not private- they are public spaces. Anyone can have access to them and use the data for their own purposes. there is no such thing as separation between "personal" and "professional" anymore." "It is still the prerogative of the hiring manager to conduct reference and background checks on the applicants in whatever means or ways that is available and accessible," says Beth Miranda of Sandstone Technology. "Browsing through the Friendster member profile is okay as long as it matches the preliminary attitudinal evaluation on the applicant's character because I think anyone reading those profiles should not automatically believeon what he or she was reading. Unless he or she personally met the person- it is like the profile only validates the preliminary evaluationon the person's character or if the person fits the company culture and environment." So, what do you think guys?