With the increasing use of social media in our society, I find myself more and more counseling business clients on issues arising from the use of social media by their employees.  We still, of course, have the standard range of employment law issues, such as wrongful discharge, employee leaves, disability discrimination, and workplace harassment.  However, social media issues have become increasingly more prominent in the workplace.

Visitors to MySpace.com and Friendster.com generally skew older, with people age 25 and older comprising 68 and 71 percent of their user bases, respectively. Meanwhile, Xanga.com has a younger user profile, with 20 percent of its users in the 12-17 age range, about twice as high as that age segments representation within the total Internet audience.

The ease and appeal of blogging is inspiring a new group of writers and creators to share their voices with the world. A new, national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and that only a small proportion focus their coverage on politics, media, government, or technology.