Do you ever think about who reads what you post on your Facebook or Twitter account?

Catherine Deveny was recently fired from The Age because of inappropriate comments on her Twitter page, saying that she hopes Bindi Irwin "gets laid" and that Rove's new wife "doesn't die too".

Most people don't realise that everything they post online will exist in cyberspace forever...and could come back to haunt them. Rebecca Vukovic reports.

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