Myspace and Facebook Litigation Soon?

Ran across an interesting point made by Nick Fishman on the outstanding HR/recruiting blog Cheezhead (http://www.cheezhead.com/) created by Joel Cheesman. I think he has a good point...

From Cheezhead:

"Many you have seen the recent CareerBuilder study which concluded that 1 in 5 employers is using Social Networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook as part of their employment background screening process.

While untested to date, we are going to see significant negligent hiring and discriminatory hiring practices claims arise from the use of these sites when making employment decisions.

Wait until the litigation starts. Trust me, it’s coming."