Ask a Manager by Alison Green

Author:Alison Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

31. Explaining that you don’t friend coworkers on social media

People have all sorts of preferences for whether and how they connect with coworkers on social media. Some people will connect on LinkedIn but not on Facebook because they want to preserve boundaries between work and the rest of their life, while others are perfectly comfortable connecting anywhere. Either choice is legitimate, but if you’re in the first group, you may occasionally run into a coworker who wants to know why you haven’t accepted her Facebook friend request.

One option, of course, is to accept the friend request and then adjust your privacy settings so that no one from work can see your posts. But if you’d rather not do that, try one of these:

• “Oh, I’m old-fashioned about Facebook. It’s been drilled into me to keep professional and personal stuff separate. Let’s connect if one of us moves to another company, though!”

• “I’m hardly ever on Facebook anymore. I really just use it to see photos of my nieces and nephews. Let’s connect on LinkedIn, though!”

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