In today’s Quick Hits, we talk about how to manage your privacy on the new Facebook, the problem with firing employees over social media, and actress Scarlett Johansson’s first official response to her recent nude photo scandal.

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Protecting Your Privacy on the New Facebook

As Facebook’s massive redesign rolls out to the site’s more than 800 million users in the coming weeks, it is important that users consider how the change will affect their personal privacy. This article from Mashable details how to manage all of the new features on Facebook, including advice on how to keep old embarrassing information doesn’t pop up on your Timeline, how to prevent Facebook’s “Frictionless Sharing” from sharing too much of your content, and how to double-check which apps are allowed to share information on your profile.

Employers Confused Over Whether They Can Fire Employees for Social Media

This article from Reuters discusses how employers are struggling to come up with social media policies that allow them to terminate employees for inappropriate online activity. Because certain negative speech is protected, mainly comments about working conditions made to other employees, the National Labor Relations Board has forced companies to rehire employees that they fired for online comments.

Woman Uses Facebook Baby Photos in Bizarre Revenge Ploy

Many parents like to share pictures of their babies online, but this story may give them pause. Yahoo Shine has the bizarre story of one woman who downloaded pictures of her friend’s baby and passed them off as pictures of her own child in order to get back at an ex-boyfriend. The woman, who told her ex that the child was his, was eventually exposed when a mutual friend of the couple recognized the baby as someone else’s child. Following the strange revenge scheme, the woman was fired from her job as a school teacher.

Schools Weigh Risk of Facebook

The Christian Science Monitor reports how schools across the country are struggling to balance the benefits of social media technology, such as enhanced communication between parents, teachers, and students, with the risks, namely cyber-bullying. The article discusses the issue in the context of a recent Missouri law that limits social media contact between teachers and students. Prior to revisions to the law, the Missouri proposal was criticized for being overly broad and potentially banning teachers from using social media technology at all.

Scarlett Johansson Calls Nude Photo Leak “Unjust”

Scarlett Johansson has spoken out about her recent nude photo scandal, calling the invasion of privacy “unjust” and “wrong.” Following the photo leak, Johansson and her attorneys worked quickly to have the photos removed from the top gossip sites where they appeared, but the images spread far and wide so quickly that it’s likely impossible for them to ever be fully removed from the Internet.