As if you needed even more reasons to cut back on your social networking usage (other than the fact that you’ve probably spent endless hours cyber-stalking your high school crush, when you should have been finishing writing that screenplay. Okay fine, I. I have spent endless hours), now Facebook-ing can get you fired. Apparently a Swiss woman lost her job when her employers caught her using Facebook from home after calling in sick for work.

The woman had a migraine making her too ill to use a computer, but then her coworkers caught her on Facebook. The woman said she was using the Internet on her iPhone while in bed. The woman does not believe her coworkers inadvertently noticed her using Facebook. Instead, the woman claims her company was spying on her by creating a fictitious Facebook persona that befriended her. The company says “that those who are well enough to use Facebook with a migraine are well enough to work with a migraine.”

Okay, is it just me or does the woman work for the creepiest company ever? This is spying, right? Or is it simply public knowledge? And why are her coworkers wasting company hours spying on her when they too should be working?

And this folks, is why we all need to learn to keep some private things private. While it’s rare that simply using Facebook could get you fired, it is possible that other Internet no-no’s could result in missed opportunities, i.e. that profile photo of you funneling beer at your best friends bachelor party when you were suppose to be at that company-wide conference could get you into trouble. Other ways to screw yourself over at work, online? Talking smack about your boss on someones “wall”, Tweeting about how much you hate your job, and of course writing super duper personal emails from your work email address (your company IT guy has access to all your company emails. ALL OF THEM).

Remember it’s called the world wide web, as in the WORLD can see what you’re putting online. Scary. And…kinda awesome. All I can say Internet users is good luck.