Should clients be friends on Facebook - should we follow our boss on Twitter?

[nannynick]

Social media has become a tool which can be useful and can have side affects. If we post something on Facebook/Twitter, other people can see it. If they post something, we can see what they write.

Is this a good thing? What are the problems with doing it?

I follow my boss on Twitter and use Twitter to give some idea of where we are, what we are doing. I'm not friends with my boss on Facebook - not that I use Facebook much these days.

sorry i dont get this and i am under 40.. my teen age kids use face book and msm..

i have friends i call on the telephone, skype text or email!!! ffs thats enough communiction time!!

when i feel the need to tell the world i am eating a biscit/feeling sad/ getting on a train/ i hope the grim reaper will come for my sad life!!!!

as a cm definatly NOT communicating with parents.. to me uiprofessional

i dont need to fish for friends anyway,,, by my christmas credit card bill got bloody many anyway !!!!

I do facebook to keep in touch with friends as my DH works for Foreign Office, so we've got friends all around the world.... but I really don't like having my boss being friend on facebook unless i'm REALLY friendly with them in real life. I don't like to be hypocritical - plus i've seen some people get in right pickles as they've put a status update on facebook like "got hammered last night" - and then haven't turned up for work! Silly in my opinion - but everyone seems to find everything out on facebook!

I just stick to "simple" facebooking - nad pick friends carefully!

My boss sent me a friend invite - so it was catch 22. I wouldn't have added her as a friend myself, but couldn't really turn her invite down! However you CAN set privacy settings to screen out info/photos if you want to. As I rarely write stuff on facebook other than occasional family updates, I think I'm safe - and as she's the sort of person who updates her status several times a day I'm hardly likely to forget she's on there! It wouldn't have been my choice though.

anyone who has the time/inclination to 'update their face book status'(what ever that means) several times a day.. and is over 20 years of age should be sacked/ shot for wasting company time..

i have a fiend who lives overseas who is mad on facebook.. read her status at the insistence of a mutual friend it said.. 'mary is angry as there is a fly in her wine glass'... says it all really doesnt it,, sad sad sad..................

I'm not 'friends' with my current or previous nanny on FB. My current nanny we have a strictly professional relationship which works great for both of us. Having been too heavily involved in my previous nannies personal problems and trying to sort her life out for her professional and friendly is the way to go!

My ex nanny was stupid enough to post messages on FB reflecting her status during her day at work 10-15+ postings per day?!! (I discovered post sacking her for other reasons). The children always commented that she was permanently texting something on her mobile. She however gave me plenty of evidence should she decide to pursue the termination of her contract for her attention to the job... or lack of.
Oh and she posted about how my son called her a 'prick', which is not a word that comes out of my or my DH's mouth!

Sadly I think that face to face and speech communication has got lost in light of text messaging FB, Twitter & email etc. However the power of speaking to a person betters the relationship and allows a level of communication and trust you can't get by FB or text message.

..steps down from the soapbox

I know ny nanny uses FB, as do I, but we seem to have an unspoken agreement that we will not be friends with each other on it. Once she is no longer our nanny I expect that will change, but in the mean time I think we both appreciate that space. By the same token I'm not generally friends on FB with people who work for me in my office

I have my ex-boss on facebook and we've just discussed me going back to them in the new year, and I will probably suggest de-friending as I don't think it's professional.