Micro blogs are not private space

Not too long ago, I tried to explain to an intern that she shouldn't discuss her assignments in her micro blog. She didn't seem to get it, insisting that her micro blog was "a private space" belonging to her and her friends.

She never asked me how I came to read her micro blog, and if I can read it, I am sure our competitors can read it too.

Believing, wrongly, that micro blogs are their "private space," many micro blog addicts, like this intern, have been saying things in public that they should never have said. Doing so, they may have unknowingly caused unforeseen damage to others, including their employers.