Comments on: Should Your Boss be Your Friend on Facebook?

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:36:08 +0000

My thoughts—if you’re afraid NOT to add your boss to your FB account for fear of offending, that seems to me a really good reason not to do it. You can ignore the request, and then later politely tell your boss that you appreciate the friend request but you prefer to keep your personal and professional lives seperate. Unless your boss is a total neanderthal, he/she will understand.

By: Job promotion

Job promotion — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:52:49 +0000

I don’t want to add my boss in facebook, but if he/she wants to be friend , I will try to add him/her for not getting any offend feelings.

By: Jonh

Jonh — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:27:36 +0000

There are bosses that don’t want to be “friends” with their workers both in real life and on social networking sites because they want to maintain a specific level of relationship with them. Others simply don’t want the idea of having their employees sneaking in to their private lives. – Jonha

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:51:16 +0000

Louanne—You’re right, it does depend on the boss, and the whole work environment. There’s just so much potential for things to go badly that I think it’s safer to keep a wall between your personal life and your work life.

Thanks for writing!

By: Louanne

Louanne — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:05:27 +0000

I guess it depends on the boss. If it works, I guess it’s fine. Many bosses are now friends with the workers.

By: Asher Adelman

Asher Adelman — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:31:37 +0000

Sometimes you have to careful like in this case – http://bit.ly/ctRc1q

By: Joan

Joan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:20:53 +0000

Rich—It occurs to me that your bosses also might have personal lives they don’t want to share with their staff—how have they reacted to your request for “friending”? Again, possibly a generational thing, or maybe just personal preference. The most important thing is to remember that anything we do online will, as you say, live forever, and proceed accordingly. Thanks for reading and commenting!

Joan

By: Rich Tatum

Rich Tatum — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:54:17 +0000

It may be generational, but then using Facebook, Twitter, and LinkeIn are in many ways reflective of generational attitudes themselves.

I left a fuller comment over on Phil’s blog, but essentially I take a proactive view. There’s really no distinction between personal and professional online. My online activities will live long past my ability to control them and will be apparent (via search engines) to personal or professional connections without distinction. So, I need to keep that in mine online at all times.

I friend my bosses first. Keeps things simpler.

Rich
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