Should employers be allowed to check on social networking sites before hiring you?

[KissThis,Yahoo!]

Absolutely. If you choose to put your personal information on the internet, anyone has the right to look at it. All the social sites have the option to set the profiles to private so that only people you allow can access them. All of my social sites are private, because they include information such as my children's names, birthday messages to friends, those types of things. But if you google me, several things will pop up, including the domain name and site I own for work...nothing bad at all. If you are stupid enough to publish nude photos or something with your name attached to it, or put on the internet in a public profile that you drink or use drugs, or whatever, then you are obviously not responsible enough to do more than flip burgers. and if you are announcing to the world that you went out last night and got trashed with your friends and slept till noon, why should even mcdonalds hire you?