I have a family acquaintance that I've played COD with online once... I was invited to his XBL party and was confused by all of the people in the group with him. He's a 24 year old HS teacher/baseball coach and, I eventually figured out, was playing COD with all of his students. A) it was horribly annoying with tons of high school kids but more importantly... B) it was kinda creepy.
its a fact facebook has always been lame, now its just a hassle for everyone i know who has had it, it really can only do harm
for many people facebook is the internets, young kids and old people. the whole thing is very strange
diversity is good even on the internets, facebook wont last too much longer
I have college profs, former managers, relatives/parents, coworkers and junior coworkers as friends on the site. But I definitely censor everything on fb, including my tagged photos. I'm beginning to think I should block the wall soon too. My coworkers found out I was leaving AZ before they should have because of fb, and rumors spread quickly through the office.
I had one pester me about adding him at work to the point where I just accepted, but yeah I can see how it can get out of hand. I mean these aren't real friends.
Yeah I never understood how a teacher can do that. Back in '97 during my junior year of HS I had this English teacher - female in her late 20's but not at all attractive - who would socialize with a small group of her students. One Friday night I was blazing and drinking a bit with the two friends I did that with the most when my gf called and said to meet her and her friends at a bowling alley to hang out. We get to the bowling alley and there's our English teacher hanging out with about 8 of our classmates. It was weird to say the least.
I know one of those and he is asking for trouble!
i agree with this.. never mix that crap
nothing good can come out of it IMO
I think you're wrong. Facebook will be around for a while. Humans are social animals and seek out all of the connections they can. I like to see what's up with people I like and I also like to see what's going on at places I like. Facebook is a good way to do that.
I've untagged unfavorable photos, have watched what I have posted in status updates and have watched what groups and items I "fan." However, I do see facebook as another networking tool and for that reason do no shy away from accepting friend requests from bosses or co-workers. I won't seek out a boss or co-worker to friend request them, though. That's just creepy. But, if they request it and I am watching what I post then i don't see what the problem is. But, unless you severely scared my ego from the age of 11-15 I'll probably accept your friend request.
I think the last person I friend requested was someone I connected to on twitter.
There's no reason for you to stalk your worker bees on Facebook. If they have a work related problem, take care of it at work.
There's no need to add your boss on Facebook, it's your boss. If you want to have a better working relationship take your boss out to lunch.
Facebook's overall interface also annoys me and I don't like navigating it, so maybe the people that like all that AJAX script bull have a better outlook on "censoring" and adding people on it. But I don't.
I don't have a boss or employees, but I also don't have much incriminating activity that will make any difference on FB. I only friend people I know, they don't find anything surprising on my page. But I check my daughter's FB frequently and I'm finding it rather alarming the number of teachers and friend's parents she is friends with. I haven't friended my own kids because I don't want any of their friends showing up as recommendations. Same goes for my friends or relatives kids. I've gone thru her friends list many times with her and had her delete all the adults I don't know. And as far as the teachers go, I'm just waiting for the stupid teacher who has the innappropriate relationship to be exposed on FB so that FB and school districts will prohibit that kind of friending. Cuz you know it's just a matter of time....
Well... I have some of my employees on facebook and I think it's great way of increasing the workplace chemistry. However, you should wait for them to send you a friend request, not for ethics purposes but for free decision etiquette (when you invite them, you obviously don't give them that much of a choice loll).
I like it because it adds another dimension in the employee-boss relationship. It allows them to be more comfortable with me and vice-versa. I personally believe the era of keeping a distance between the boss and the employee is over... For example when someone has a birthday I don't think it's a stretch to leave them a birthday wish on their wall or a congratulation comment when they post pics of their new born.
You should never use facebook to spy them however. What you see on their facebook page should never be used against them at work. It should serve you as another way to improve the relationships because it will improve their results also.
I have a couple of higher ups in my company as friends on FB...We rarely even talk so i guess its kind of pointless.
I try and be reserved with what i put up there, but for the most part, nothing i am going to say or do is or should be detrimental to my employment anywhere. I did have to block feeds from a friend who loved to post pictures of his latest stash of pot on his page....you would think after 32 years he would have gotten over that, but apparently he is the same guy i knew back when we were 16 / 17 years old....I dont need a big bag of pot being associated with me for various reasons! lol.....
The main rule I had for my child was that I had to be his friend so I could regularly monitor what people post on his wall. I have never gotten a recommendation to friend any of his friends.
I also had the rule that his only friends are kids around his age or relatives. No adult friends period that are not genetically related to him- like older cousins. As he has gotten older this rule has had to relax a little because he has friends that are 18 or 19 now.
I use it for friends (outside of work) and family. Facebook is pretty clean compared to myspace, but you never know who will access your page and use it against you. I'd rather be offline to my fellow employees.
My daughter is not allowed to have a private wall, so I can still see everything without friending her. Also, there are no private areas on my page either---I just don't put up any personal info.
That means everyone else can see it too-- not an option I wanted.
That's reserved for here.
Since I'm not in a typical work situation like most, my FB is no big deal...I don't put anything up that people don't already know. My 17 year old won't friend me, but I don't care because he has all my family members (including my mom!) as his friend. My 14 year old couldn't care less about FB and neither does my husband.
I won't request to be friends with my friends kids, but if they request to be my friend, I accept. Again, there's nothing to hide on my end. I even have goofy 80s pictures up.
I have found people I went to school with in Luxembourg, which was really cool, and we're most likely going to have a reunion this summer. I also re-connected with people I went to high school with--including my best friend that I lost touch with and just went to my 25th high school reunion back in October and had a blast.
YMMV...
Isn't face book cited as a contributing factor in something like 60% of divorces within the last couple of years? It's the reason I got rid of mine, I was having lonely ex's looking me up and contacting me fairly often, which isn't good for the current relationship. I can see how it just skyrockets the temptation factor.
Create a separate dummy FB account for the sole purpose of spying.
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