bingo. look you up. reporter: 31-year-old amy who doesn t want us to use her last name or use her face says she s guilty of doing it. i google pretty much everyone, my exes and if i know who they are dating, i might google them, too. reporter: she looks up her most recent ex about once a week. it s probably a little out of control that i google my exes, but i think everyone does it. reporter: cybersnooping has become quite common. almost 50% of young adults have used social networking sites to check up on someone they dated in the past. it s very hard to resist looking. if it s out there, i want to see it. reporter: relationship expert dr. stacey kaiser says occasionally searching for a former flame is totally normal. it s healthy and normal to be curious about an ex and want to google them. it becomes unhealthy when it s hurting your current relationship or impacting your
the experiments that facebook does. once you ve signed up for it. so what is an example of this? let s say if i log on to facebook and i am looking at my feed, how might something have been manipulated? well, you know, they re going to try to pick stories that you re interested in, so you ll spend more time on facebook. i think they might prioritize positive stories, because those are heartwarming. those are a positive. you might stick around and read more of those. people s baby pictures, people s vacation pictures. stuff like that. you might say that s a very good thing for facebook to be doing. because it might lift everybody s spirits to see lots of pictures of those barbecues i mentioned today. but we should be aware when on facebook other social networking sites these feeds are algorithmically chosen and tests are going on all of the time to make the services more valuable to us. after all, the customers of facebook aren t really us. they re advertisers. that s who facebook i
and twitter? i am on facebook. imagine getting something like this. tweets and facebook posts can really get people fired in one state. kansas state attorney general just approved policy, employees of any public university can be let go for what they post on social media. applies to all forms of blogging, social networking sites but critics are saying it is a violation of speech. kimberly. yeah, probably is but i kind of like it. sometimes i like a violation here or there. you know what? you can do this. you can t do it but in this situation i don t like when people are really bad on the twitter and facebook and posting horrible things and so in a certain way, should an employer in a general broad spectrum to be able to kind of dictate to say that is inappropriate in some kind of conduct way or manuel that you sign on to when you go to work for someone? i don t know. that is the tricky kind of legal characterric. a lot of peopleproblems here
so, that gives you a sense of how much suspicion there is and doubt coming from the families of the passengers of the plane. and one other example. you know, this woman is sharing through social networking sites with the other families photos of herself with her missing husband, you know, celebrating a birthday together with, like, cute little birthday hats, samming, hsam i saying, honey, i can t wait for you to come home. and i think that symbolizes, underscores how much many of the next of kin really believe that their missing loved ones are still out there somewhere. they re really still holding out hope. and as one clinical psychologist that i ve talked to on hwho has helped deal with the families and helped guide them and who has helped survivors and next of kin of another aerial disaster, he said that this hope could be really damaging, that the fall, the downfall could be much, much
so just about two weeks now into this full disappearance, and, greg, these poor family members just want some sort of closure, as you can imagine. this has just been horrific for them over the last 14 days or so following all of the ups and downs, the new theories that have been introduced, first they thought it crashed, then they thought perhaps this notion it was hijacked and maybe landed safely somewhere. so, these people just want some answers so they can begin the grieving process. it s in the unknown that makes it so difficult. we mentioned phillip wood. obviously his family and brother are very concerned. if you look at the social networking sites there are questions a great many people have about the other two americans onboard, as we mentioned, four-year-old and a two-year-old. clearly they would not have been unescorted onboard the plane. a lot of people are wondering what exactly do we know, if