DISQUS

Dave Kerpen · 1 year ago

I think the answer is, you have to be who you are- personal and professional have merged with the advent of social media- and today's 21-29 year olds know no boundaries in this sphere.

Ernesto · 1 year ago

Dave called it out and as more time goes on, more people are getting use to see personal things in professionals.

It's odd for those of over 30, nerve racking for those of us over 40, and down right scary for the rest to have so much personal information out there. Nevertheless, if it's new business culture to mix "business and pleasure"... eventually it'll be strange NOT have personal elements of your life in your professional profiles... you'll be the guy that people wonder what you're hiding.

Ken Yeung · 1 year ago

@Dave and @Ernesto I completely agree with your assessment and think that if you're using Facebook for professional reasons, you shouldn't make it so "stale" that people start to think they're interacting with a robot. However, the conflict here seems to be HOW MUCH personal should be there? I started using Facebook as a personal means to communicating with my friends and it's slowly grown to encompass my professional network and many of my (now former) co-workers. Obviously I'm holding the basic rule of avoiding any work-related conflict of interest from appearing on my FB page, but there goes the same issue...how much is too much?

Affordable SEO Services · 11 months ago

I wholeheartedly agree. I have several friends on various social networking sites that want me to join, and add them as friends. I am a computer professional, but I have never (and probably never will) join these internet websites. As I am on the computer all day at work, the last thing I want to do when I get home is get back on the computer.