So busy a weekend, and for once not just because of work. I have to say the change in source of business didn't make it any more pleasurable. I am ready for a dull weekend one of these days! Round up to come tonight.
In the interim maybe you dear readers can help me with something. I am part of a group on Facebook related to parenting. I used to like it a lot. Now it has grown in popularity and I find the greater the size, the less useful it becomes to me. They added some subgroups, including a working mom group via Linked In. This I still liked a lot, another way to network professionally with people of a group I felt was a good filter for me.
Then recently they decided to move this professionals subgroup to Facebook. To which I say, "Boo!". I know the internet is a whore when it comes to displaying all your professional and personal information the minute you make it available, but I make a conscious effort to keep personal and private separate. In particular work being a distinct thing. I am not friends with anyone at work on Facebook. I never write names of companies on my blog. I don't mention anything about work on Facebook. The two do not mix in my digital world, at least not of my instigation.
So I was very bummed about this group because they are now effectively dead to me. Maybe I am behind the times, but I refuse to mix the two. It strikes me as unprofessional to move a business networking to where you post pictures of your dog and what you ate last night. Maybe I'm too harsh. I guess I should find a different local group to join!
In the interim maybe you dear readers can help me with something. I am part of a group on Facebook related to parenting. I used to like it a lot. Now it has grown in popularity and I find the greater the size, the less useful it becomes to me. They added some subgroups, including a working mom group via Linked In. This I still liked a lot, another way to network professionally with people of a group I felt was a good filter for me.
Then recently they decided to move this professionals subgroup to Facebook. To which I say, "Boo!". I know the internet is a whore when it comes to displaying all your professional and personal information the minute you make it available, but I make a conscious effort to keep personal and private separate. In particular work being a distinct thing. I am not friends with anyone at work on Facebook. I never write names of companies on my blog. I don't mention anything about work on Facebook. The two do not mix in my digital world, at least not of my instigation.
So I was very bummed about this group because they are now effectively dead to me. Maybe I am behind the times, but I refuse to mix the two. It strikes me as unprofessional to move a business networking to where you post pictures of your dog and what you ate last night. Maybe I'm too harsh. I guess I should find a different local group to join!
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I can understand your concern. My profession does it differently - we only use facebook. It means that half of my facebook friends are professional friends, but I have also been careful to limit what I put on facebook now. Other people in our community seem to direct posts to select groups of people, but I haven't figured out to do it.
I have never been able to warm up to Facebook because of exactly what you have mentioned. I know I'm cutting myself off from a lot of potential interaction with those close who use it a lot (even Mom!). But it is so public and the data used so much, I just can't step into it.
absolutely - do NOT mix it. unless you one day start a company and hire a bunch of your friends. ;)
though technically i dont understand the problem of being part of the working mom group if it's on fb. you dont have to list your job. right?
It's a bit difficult to figure out, but FB does give you pretty comprehensive control over who can see a particular post. So you can effectively partition most everything you put on FB so that only certain people can see certain things. Yeah, the default is public, but the tools are there to lock almost everything down.
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-limit-who-can-see-your-facebook-posts.html
I forgot to mention - I think eventually however they can sell your data to anyone they please. That's my other issue. Combine that with the work thing and it just doesn't fly for me.
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