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According to Pew Internet's Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency:

One in five workng American adults (20%) say their employer has a special policy about how employees handle themselves online - including what can be shared and posted on blogs and other websites.

This makes sense in the respect that you probably shouldn't blab company secrets in public forums. You don't talk about the upcoming earnings report or the new advertising initiative that's about to be unveiled unless those things happen to be part of your job description.

However, I could give a rat's ass if I violated any policies that attempt to govern my online activities. Hell, I don't even know if such policies exist at HP. Personally, I feel that if they don't like the way I present myself online, they can shove it.

I will probably go take a look and see if they do have any such policies. If I'm going to be violating them, I'd like to at least be aware of my transgressions. The report has this to say regarding peoples' awareness of the issue:

However, a modest segment of the working public - one in ten - admits that they don't know if their place of employment has policies or guidelines about how employees present themselves online.