The British Medical Association guidance declared that the most popular social networking sites, Facebook and twitter could draw threatening lines between the personal and professional careers of an individual.

The message was echoed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). They advised both the doctors and medical students to take some quick conventional privacy settings measures and further warned that they should not make any casual or offensive comments about patients and the colleagues.

They also advised that the users should not accept any Facebook friend requests from any of the present or past patients.

There were series of cases among the NHS staff and other public sector workers, which also proved that while accessing their accounts on the social media they faced many dilemmas.

The cases included that a group of doctors and nurses lost their jobs because they posted odd hospital pictures on their Facebook accounts. In another incidence, a civil servant was accused for making serious allegations against the political points.

Dr. Tony Calland, Chairman of the BMA's medical ethics committee, citied, "Medical professionals should be cautious about that fact that of who could access their personal material online, how widely it could be shared and how it could be perceived by their patients and colleagues".