Recently, the national media has been flooded with stories of employees who have been disciplined or fired from their jobs for posting comments about their employers on social media websites such as Facebook or Twitter. For instance, in December of 2010, a reporter for the Arizona Daily Star was terminated after he opened a private Twitter account and posted inappropriate tweets about co-workers and local television journalists, and made cruel jokes about the homicide rate in Tucson. In February of 2011, an English teacher at a Philadelphia area school was suspended for posting a rant about her students and their parents on an online blog. And in August of 2010 a Massachusetts teacher was asked to resign over her Facebook comments calling her students “germ bags” and their parents “snobby” and “arrogant.”