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Should people have a separate Facebook for Personal & Business?

I was asked this question from Christine Bonner Sierra… I met Christine in a business context. She said…

"So this brings up an interesting question in the world of social media - my facebook account is full of working moms who are complaining about ear infections, class field trips and little time to themselves.

Do you recommend two accounts for most colleagues?  One for the LinkedIn type connections and one to address the non-work life?  I'll be curious your thoughts before I confirm you into the world of strep throat and Grey's Anatomy critiques.  I hadn't given it much thought until I got your request.  Thanks for making me think today :) "

 So what is the right response. Some FB friends weighed in:

Kelly Guilmette at 4:39pm October 30
I guess you could have a personal account and a business account if you were planning to keep those friends seperated… If I were presently in the work force, I probably would not want my coworkers to see that the highlight of my day has been catching a fly that was following me around the house. :)

Matthew Marx at 3:43pm October 30
John IMO no. Too much to manage that way for me personally. To convince me to add my business (LinkedIn) network into my FB I’d need some sort of a "business view" where I could flag contacts as business contacts and they would see certain business-related content only… Hope all is well.

Matthew Wood at 2:46pm October 30
That's what LinkedIn is for, right?

Connor Murphy at 3:04pm October 30
The BBC says that Bosses "should embrace Facebook" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7695716.stm

As for LinkedIn - they have just launched a whole suite of collaboration and networking tools that are targeted at business networking. So I would agree that Facebook for personal, LinkedIn for business is a good split…

However - Companies will …  Read Moreneed their own internal versions to protect privacy, IP, confidentiality etc… . Many companies are moving to fill this space. Many open source plugins are popping up that mimic facebook and linkedin behaviours. Small example would be a plugin like FaceBox for JQuery. I have also seen web parts for SharePoint being developed.

Linda Bent at 3:37pm October 30
My question for you is - what would your alias be for "Personal" so your "Business" networks don’t recognize you? ;-)

My Take

Cop out answer: It depends. But… I would say Christine should use one Facebook account (they will find you anyway, right Linda?)  And, use the Privacy settings where needed.  Under privacy settings you can set up groups and assign permissions to each group.

Most people are using Linked in more for business and Facebook more for personal, but the lines are blurred in our transparent social media driven society… if your friends aren't likely to offend and you're working with friends - one Facebook should work fine!

What do you think? If you have more feedback please feel free to send me a comment and we can continue the conversation on my blog: Revenue Architects


  In This Issue
Astaro Brings Enterprise Protection to The SMB

Upcoming Webinar: A Single View of the Audience with Master Data Management

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery - Advice On Building More Resiliency Into Everyday Data Center Operations

Saving Space - Make The Most Of What You Have When Space Is At A Premium

How small businesses can win in the tight economy

Get more work done with less e-mail

Organized customer and employee support



Article List

Astaro Brings Enterprise Protection to The SMB

Published on Nov 04, 2008

Clark and Daughtrey's IT department was apprehensive about their network security. The SonicWall firewalls at this multispecialty medical group--the oldest and largest in central Florida --"just did a very poor job of keeping out the spyware and the viruses," explains David Stephenson, Information Systems Manager at Clark and Daughtrey. In addition, managing multiple point solutions proved too much work for their small IT team and prevented them from properly addressing other important IT issues.

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Upcoming Webinar: A Single View of the Audience with Master Data Management

Published on Nov 04, 2008

How well do you know your audience? Do you have a place where you can report on ALL pertinent information, including: contact information, email preferences, event registration, magazine subscriptions, product registration? If not, then you should attend tomorrow's webinar to learn how CrossTech Partners™ Master Data Management (MDM) solution can help you integrate these disparate data sources into a centralized database, and gain valuable insight into your audience.

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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery - Advice On Building More Resiliency Into Everyday Data Center Operations

Published on Nov 04, 2008

Although companies of every size need to address business continuity and disaster recovery issues, small to midsized enterprises have unique needs, believes Stephen Pollack, vice president of business strategy for Novell’s Systems and Resource Management Division (http://www.novell.com/).

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Saving Space - Make The Most Of What You Have When Space Is At A Premium

Published on Nov 04, 2008

As IT grapples with rapidly growing demand to deliver a wider range of services to its business partners, it runs up against an age-old growth-related challenge: space. Specifically, some IT shops are running out of it in their data centers.

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How small businesses can win in the tight economy

Published on Nov 04, 2008

Those of you running hedge funds and getting bonus checks north of $20 million should be nervous about your jobs if you still have them. Those of us in the small business world never had the burden of huge bonuses so we're not panicking as much. On the smaller end of the business scale, money can still be borrowed, and bargains on business essentials can be found everywhere.

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Get more work done with less e-mail

Published on Nov 04, 2008

Here's a statistical downer: there will be around 40 trillion inbox-clogging spam e-mail messages delivered this year. Experts know this because there were 30 trillion spam messages last year. With this much hay in the stack, it's hard to find those message needles, and that's why some smart companies are looking beyond public e-mail. (Compare antispam products)

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Organized customer and employee support

Published on Nov 04, 2008

Computers and applications stubbornly remain hard to use. Developers, from solo code jockeys to huge corporations, promise us things will be better "real soon." But if operating systems and applications aren't easier today than yesterday, at least we're seeing advances in how to support them. Take NTRSupport's new FirstHelp tool, a support portal. It combines information, drivers, tips, training, techniques, instant messaging, e-mail and even remote control software in a one-stop support shop.

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