 They do so in order to protect the company's assets and to control public communications but most importantly, to make sure that their employees are actively working and being productive.This can emotionally affect people; this is because it can cause emotions like jealousy.A research group states "...we set out to test the prediction that feelings of jealousy lead to ‘creeping’ on a partner through Facebook, and that women are particularly likely to engage in partner monitoring in response to jealousy".