When Your Boss Wants to Friend You on Facebook
by Kristina Cowan

Has your boss ever asked to be "friends" with you on Facebook? As social media becomes more prevalent, this is a dilemma more workers are facing. A Boston Globe story reports that the fastest-growing segment of Facebook is people 25 years or older, and more than half of all users are beyond college.

Accepting a boss's Facebook request can be awkward, but rejecting it can be a slight--and potentially detrimental to your career. Should employers be making such inquiries? If they do--and no doubt some will--what's an employee to do?

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Submitted by Kristina Cowan (view blog) on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 11:56

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My boss introduced me to Facebook

I accepted his invitation and discovered Facebook.

I don't think it's a big deal. I don't consider my Facebook account as "private", any more than I consider my blog as private. I think it's a mistake to rely on the privacy features of online social networks. I only ever post PG-type stuff anyway, and I would NEVER complain about my boss in writing - not even on email.

Vered DeLeeuw
www.momgrind.com

Submitted by Vered on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 09:04
 

Friending your boss

I can see situations in my world when I would not have wanted to friend my boss - or my coworkers. Then of course there's the whole problem of trying to keep a blog "anonymous" so your boss and your coworkers don't read it - because sometimes you just have to blog about your boss

errr, not me. I neverrrrrr blog about my boss. OK OK fine, I do but I only say nice things. But that's because I only have nice things to say. What happens if I have less than nice things to say? What happens if I need to vent .... I can't, not really. It would be wrong and I just would not do it.

Because I work "here", my work life and my "social networking life" are one in the same. I'm cool with that.

I'd love to talk about previous jobs, and social networking in relationship to those former bosses and coworkers but... nah. Some of them are reading right now.

:-)

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Submitted by Denise on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 14:17
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