NC for this, as some details are obviously a bit outing.
I've got a situation with my work that I'm feeling a bit unhappy about, but wondered if I'm being unreasonable and just need to suck it up?
First thing to say is my job title isn't social media manager, but in the past I have sometimes been asked to share content to one of our client's Facebook page. I hate Facebook and haven't used it personally for a number of years - and I created an anonymous account purely for this work purpose. I don't have any friends added on there or use it for anything other than that.
The last time I was asked to do this was some months ago, so I assumed that it wouldn't be something I'd be doing anymore. In the interim, I've gone through a break up, and as a result of feeling quite down and lost in life, I've been trying to avoid all other social media for the sake of my own mental wellbeing, as well as any online presence of this ex, who does use social media and Facebook in particular.
I recently installed a really effective website blocker that makes it very hard to disable, because I knew that the temptation to search for their Facebook profile or anyone else's was too great. It's been really effective, and helpful to my mental health - out of sight, out of mind, and all that.
Anyway, much to my horror today, my boss has asked me to start sharing content on this client's page again, fairly regularly. I didn't explain the full reasons behind it, just that I'd installed a productivity app and hadn't realised it had blocked Facebook, and now didn't know how to remove it.
He said I needed to 'find a way' and that it'd be hard to give this work to anyone else. But now I'm worried that I'm going to be tempted to start searching and seeing potentially upsetting things (a mutual friend has told me they've already changed their profile pic to them and a new partner 😔). I know you can block profiles when logged into Facebook, but I could still easily Google and find their profile (they have a surname I don't know anyone else has).
Any tips for managing this? Should I just tell my boss the real reason I don't want to use Facebook, or just accept what he's asked and try to avoid the temptation to search?