You won’t find Amegy Bank of Texas CEO Paul B. Murphy Jr. uploading new profile pictures onto Facebook or linking Twitter feeds to a MySpace page. Murphy, who heads the 87-branch, Houston-based bank, isn’t personally involved in the brave new world of social networking Web sites, but he certainly knows what they are. And thanks to his lawyer, his bank is successfully navigating the legal land mines they can contain.
The trouble wasn’t that bank employees were participating in these popular sites, which create an online environment where friends can communicate with each other and share personal messages, private information and family photos, says Murphy. Rather, Murphy was concerned about whether the bank’s human resources department could — or even should — access these sites in the course of the hiring process.
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