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- pathouston22, on 05/01/2009, -0/+28Uh, just don't add them as friends and make your profile private.
Is it really that difficult? - nirv117, on 05/01/2009, -0/+25you choose who you are friends with. Just don't be friends with co-workers. Remove them, or make a second account for your "inappropriate" stuff and only befriend certain people.
- sirjimithy, on 05/01/2009, -0/+17There's no replacement for personal responsibility. Period.
If you don't want the whole world to know, don't put it on Facebook. - wedges, on 05/01/2009, -0/+12friend lists... use them.
upon viewing my profile, my boss and all co-workers can see the following things: my picture, my basic info, my work info. i've hidden my status, my wall, pictures of me, videos of me, my notes, posted items, etc. i also blocked my boss from following me on twitter. - Manther, on 05/01/2009, -0/+12Or just doesn't want to be the next guy that gets fired because some tight ass at work saw something on his facebook page and went crazy. To me, it's a valid concern. I'm not ashamed of who I am, but I still don't want everyone I work with knowing all about my personal life...
- WarezAppz, on 05/01/2009, -1/+13This is not news. Anyone with common sense realizes you shouldn't live your life out in the open on-line especially in this day and age. You simply do not post any personal/private/embarrassing information about yourself on Facebook or anywhere else in the public domain for that matter. Does it really take more than a brain cell to figure that out?
- jimmies, on 05/01/2009, -0/+9If it's embarassing him, he's a tard for not know how to use the filters built in to Facebook.
- Aleman360, on 05/01/2009, -0/+8That's why you should use LinkedIn instead of Facebook for work people.
- kinerry, on 05/01/2009, -0/+8um, you can limit what certain people see in the privacy settings...
- Smokeydabear, on 05/01/2009, -3/+9Facebook has always kinda freaked me out. It was cool when it was a college only thing. You had to use your .edu email to get on the thing. I don't want to get on a social networking tool that my mother is on, or my lamo cousins. ***** them.
- kingofthisnight, on 05/01/2009, -0/+5My two big Facebook rules:
1) Limit your profiles privacy settings to friends only or only me.
2) If you "friend" a co-worker who you don't want snooping around on your profile block them from that info.
Just be smart about how you use these social networking tools. - danlowlite, on 05/01/2009, -0/+5As others have stated, there are filters. Make a separate one for your co-workers, one for your family, and so on; apply those filters judiciously and consistently.
- kylere, on 05/01/2009, -1/+5People should only friend, FRIENDS, coworkers are never friends
- Julie188, on 04/30/2009, -2/+6I met a CIO of a large public company who was lamenting how his facebook was embarrassing him. If he wanted to post pictures of drinking and women to his buddies, he had all his office folks friends to worry about ...
- haydesigner, on 05/01/2009, -0/+3@blackinthmiddle... you know that you can actually DELETE things that people post on *your* wall, right?
- setabs, on 05/01/2009, -0/+3I don't know. It was pretty hard for me to make a separate group to add my "Mafia Wars" friends to. I mean 3 clicks and some typing is to demanding to make them not see my profile.
- captainglobal, on 05/01/2009, -0/+4I agree, don't friend people who you'd rather not have looking at your facebook.
- Nothlit, on 05/01/2009, -0/+4Or, you know, actually pay off your loans.
- hawk0168, on 05/01/2009, -1/+5I have many friends who graduated college and are now high school teachers. They all deleted their accounts.
- BossKey, on 05/01/2009, -0/+3I use the filters and they take constant mental maintenance. You have to think about the list every new friend goes into. You have to think about the privacy settings for each section of your profile, and each application. You may not want them to be uniform. You have to balance openness to your trusted friends against oversharing to casual acquaintances. There is a shocking ignorance among most of the people on my friends list as to how open the Wall is by default, and how applications publish to the Highlights stream; for instance the things you become a fan of show up everywhere by default. It also helps to have a concept of whitelists, blacklists, and simple rule logic.
If a person can't master the complex interaction between lists and privacy settings, you can tell them to use filters, and they can try, but Facebook is so feature-rich and interconnected that chances are that even if they do their best, they will unintentionally leave a gap somewhere and have a personal information leak that will bite them before they realize it. In the end, if you don't want to embarrass yourself the only solution is to maintain a very conservative, lowest-common-denominator profile. - WarezAppz, on 05/01/2009, -0/+3Short answer: YES!
Long answer: Choose whom you confide in; have the wisdom to know the people with whom you associate; Have the intelligence to NOT allow/associate your profile/information in a manner that allows those without candor to spread your business around like the Daily Bugle!
Not Hypothetical here either, I have a FB account - with both work and wildly casual friends that have befriended me there. The ones that I chose to allow, all know so little about my personal life that they couldn't spread anything that I haven't already let be known to begin with.
I don't post incriminating/excessively personal photos; I don't engage in discussions of a confidential or personal nature(online or casually); and I don't tolerate anyone in my life who compromises my moral standing.
Again, it's that simple. Like someone said below - it is 100% your own responsibility of how you maintain your friendships and associations and the ramifications of what they may bring. - lisaawesome, on 05/01/2009, -0/+3Depending on the job "the boss" could easily be a peer. I was a department manager a few years ago and half my employees were my age and I went to school with so there never felt like there was a distinctive line between us. Outside of work we hung out and would go to parties together although technically I was not supposed to fraternize with them. Totally saw some drunken employee ***** one time. So yeah we were FB friends despite the fact that I was the boss.
- blackinthmiddle, on 05/01/2009, -0/+3Huh? I fail to see your logic.
It has nothing to do with being ashamed of yourself. I made the mistake of friending one of my co-workers when I had just started working for a new company. It so happens I finally opened up a facebook account and was eager to friend anyone I "knew".
2.5 years later I'm not happy where I work and I discuss this with a friend of mine on the train. I tell her that my resume is out there and I'll leave when I find something better. I then see on my wall:
"So, are you still working at (company)"
Now one could take this a number of ways. Such as:
"Hey, I haven't seen you in a while and the last time we spoke, you were at XYZ company. Are you still there?"
or
"I know things aren't going well for you at your job. Did they fire you yet? Did you quit? I know you were looking."
I was not happy with the question at all. Let it be a lesson. Do not friend co-workers, unless they pass the threshold from co-workers to real friends. - blackinthmiddle, on 05/01/2009, -1/+4Actually, it can be. A simple scenario.
"Friend" #1 searches for you and can't find you because your account is private.
Friend #2 (a friend you actually consider a friend) discusses what some crazy person said on facebook. Unfortunately, said friend does this in the company of "Friend" #1.
"Friend" #1: "Hey, you have a facebook account? I tried searching for you the other day and didn't see you. I just assumed you weren't on facebook."
You: "Oh yeah...I have an account."
"Friend" #1: Oh cool, send me a friend request or give me your info so I can send you one.
If this friend (who's not really a friend) is someone you can't afford to piss off (co-worker, boss), now you're in a tough spot. Either friend him/her or immediately let it be know that "My account is private to keep people like *you* from finding me!" - RadicalEdward, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2except he would likely be fired for stuff like that. companies are sensitive to their executive reputations.
- SteveWiilliams, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1It's a pretty big issue to be honest. First there was the case of the woman who got fired after her colleague happened to mention that her status was: 'Work is boring', and then was the case of another woman getting fired because she was caught using Facebook during her sick leave (http://blog.stevewiilliams.me.uk/2009/04/27/woman- ...
Methinks they're pretty stupid people for doing things like that, but at the same time, Facebook is abused on so many levels. Why can't people just use it discerningly? - scrap3r, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2I just put people into groups, some see everything some see filtered.
works fine. - gerbilthemonkey, on 05/01/2009, -1/+3Do you know anyone who could give me advice on such a venture?
I'd ask you but since your a fellow digg user I assume you're having similar problems :D - blackinthmiddle, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2There's a huge problem with this and it's happened to me a few times already.
One day, you open your account and you see a friend request. It's from your co-worker. Great, you have two accounts. But your co-worker searched for you and found your account. You really don't want to friend them at all. Unfortunately, you see them every day at work. So if you don't friend him/her, you've created an instant enemy, one that you have to work with.
I've been amazed by the number of friend requests I received from people I barely knew, much less considered friends. Depending on the situation, however, it can be *very* difficult not to accept the friend request. What exactly do you do when your boss sends you a friend request?
And I usually don't put that much personal stuff up there. But all you need is one friend to ask a question that gives out more information than you want, such as, "I know you're not happy at your job. How did the interview go?", when your boss or co-worker is one of your friends. - pradador, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2Isn't that the point of the Friend Lists and Privacy Profiles that Facebook has? I know a friend has a list for "ex-boyfriends" so that they can't stalk her after the relationship is over.
- maxer64, on 05/01/2009, -1/+3The whole point is that when your facebook friends are people you actually know and work with 'outside of the basement', then it could be trouble.
But please, continue your holier-than-thou rant against facebook. - vsaint, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2I never friend a co-worker on facebook. Be sure to set it to private if you are searching for jobs too.
- inactive, on 05/01/2009, -1/+3What the *****? Who would friend their boss on facebook?
- audiblesilence, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2BINGO...exactly what started happening to me. You cant believe the guilt and offense people in the workplace took to me not opening up my facebook to them.
I finally deactivated and went to Twitter...much less to share out there. - davenport651, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2Or simply say, "I make it a point to separate my work life and personal life."
- sirjimithy, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2You can ask that person to remove it and don't post personal information about you on Facebook. Not to mention you can always untag yourself from other people's photos/vidoes/notes.
- asnider, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2Then maybe he should either learn to use the privacy filters or find a more private way to share those pictures with his friends.
- gsensel, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2Pay your bills like an adult and you don't have to worry about being tracked down because the aren't looking for you.
- blackinthmiddle, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2I think you missed one crucial point of the article. What if *someone else* does?
- RatatRatR, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2pathouston22, That's my attitude too. I'm a Facebook *****, and I think that's the only way to be. Letting every goddamn person you've ever met have access to your account is just asking for trouble.
- RatatRatR, on 05/01/2009, -0/+2I've been in the situation where not just one but several of my coworkers were also my friends. Damn, I miss it. I recognize, though, that that's extremely rare.
- pathouston22, on 05/01/2009, -1/+3Well, that's ya'lls own fault for giving in to peer pressure. If somebody has a problem with me not adding them as a friend, they can go ***** themselves.
- BossKey, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1see my post below on how filters are not necessarily easy for the man on the street or the PHB.
- Maxwell1234, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1So choose to make your wallposts private... very easy!
- kylere, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1RatatRatR, I have coworkers I am friends with, but the fact is that you cannot afford to be. One layoff notice and things change.
- kaosethema, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1solution: don't join fakebook
I'm watching people around me dropping like flies, getting talked into joining. some time later, they're complaining about some inappropriate information getting out or some embarrassing photo making the rounds. but they never blame fakebook.
fakebook was made by nerds for the social elite to feed on the socially awkward. - antdude, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1One print page: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com ...
- Maxwell1234, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1Thank you. Why do people have such a hard time grasping this?
- jimmies, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1If he's a CIO and can't figure it out then he has no business being a CIO. Anywhere.
- MWeather, on 05/01/2009, -0/+1Don't friend anyone at work for any reason whatsoever. If you want to network at work, use LinkedIn.
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