ABSTRACT
The use of social media by young people in the workplace is no doubt a new frontier in debates about young people and their legal rights in relation to social media. Notions that using social media at work wastes work time and obstructs workers in pursuing their workplace duties and tasks might lead one to think that employers would seek to ban use of social media at work. In fact, for most workplaces opposite is the case. The relevance for young people and social media is that as a group they are perhaps less likely to challenge the terms of a social media policy written by an employer. While the social media policies currently formulated apply to young people, they are not specifically addressed to them. However, there is little doubt that greater take-up of social media by young people makes the wording of such policies even more relevant for present-day youth as they enter adulthood and take up employment.
