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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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If I want to have a personal conversation on Facebook, I take it to a private message. If its about opinions and generalities, it's fine for a wall.
Anything that I'd say on my wall, I have, or would have, said in real life. If someone disagrees with me, so be it. If they want to fire me over it, that's their loss. Ive never had trouble getting a job, and it's the least of my worries.
That being said, I'm guessing most of you can guess that I'm a fairly tame guy. I'm a family man...and that's reflected on my FB page. There's really nothing there (or in my life for that matter), that'd surprise anyone who knows me.
I'm going to echo SR on the age thing as well. I've got 65 year old FB friends, as well as 10 year old ones. Most are family, but not all. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:52 am Post subject: |
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Anything that I post publicly on Facebook is mom and grandma friendly. I'm Facebook friends with my current boss, as well as several former bosses. It's called networking. I doubt I'd want to return to publishing when I move back to the US, but it's good to have options.
My mom didn't want a Facebook account because she's a fairly private person, but I made her one with a pseudonym, so that she could keep in touch more easily. My little sister unfriended her after a few days, after my mom commented on how low cut one of her blouses was (it was exceedingly low cut.) Meanwhile, my mom is able to see photos that I upload (everything is SFW) without my having to email them to her. She loves this.
I see nothing wrong with "friending" bosses or parents. Facebook is a tool. I use it to communicate with a large circle of friends and family, who all use different chat clients and emails. It consolidates them all into one place.
Of course, when I was 21, the idea of accepting parents or bosses would have been unacceptable. I'm just glad/lucky that I didn't have an account back then! |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:23 am Post subject: |
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Two possibilites I think.
1- You are not some idiot who posts crap on his FB because he thinks it is somehow not applicable to real life.
If that is the case, you can add your employer to your list of FB friends and have very little to worry about.
2- You are some idiot who does post crap and idiocy all over his FB thinking it is private.
If that is the case, under no circumstances should you add your boss to FB.
Up to you really. |
I'd be willing to bet that case 2 is upwards of 75% of internet users. |
That certainly is possible.
I can say that having worked on a few hiring committees and having had to scan through and evaluation applications, FB has become standard as something to check. What you find on there is often astounding. Still, such is life with social media!
As for "friending" an employer, I did so in the past because like Captain, I worked at certain places for a while and developed a relationship that went beyind employee-employer with some of my former bosses. |
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cwflaneur
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| My point of view is that I add someone as a FB friend if that person actually is a friend. In my case, boss(es) are not my friends. So I don't add them. Simple. |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:40 am Post subject: |
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| How could you just ignore your boss's request then see them every day and act normally? It's a weird thing to do. It's like someone asking 'What's that you're reading?', then muttering 'Nothing' as you quickly put it out of sight and scurry off into the dark corner you emerged from |
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cwflaneur
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Squire wrote: |
| How could you just ignore your boss's request then see them every day and act normally? It's a weird thing to do. It's like someone asking 'What's that you're reading?', then muttering 'Nothing' as you quickly put it out of sight and scurry off into the dark corner you emerged from |
It's not that weird. People act "as if" things are normal or nothing weird had happened in every workplace practically every day. Pretense is built into working culture. Anyway, some people try to overreach with their FB connections and they're the sort who are used to having their requests ignored. This sort of person shouldn't be enabled.
There should be an option to disallow a particular person from being able to request a FB friendship... that would help to preempt some of the nonsense and unnecessary confusion that FB has unleashed onto the world. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I think anyone who owns the deposit on your domicile is entitled to be your facebook friend. |
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