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it's always a little disconcerting when work people start friending you on facebook. i have a couple bigwigs friended on mine and i sort of don't know

Posted by kare (aka kare) Jan 9 '09, 13:41

how to handle it.

i figure i can only just be myself, one of my problems is being too reserved around bigwig types, so this helps me break out of my shell some, for better or worse.

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I don't think I'd friend anybody over my immediate boss's level. -- nm - mara Jan 9, 13:49 4
- i kind of like how it breaks down some barriers. you know? -- nm - kare Jan 9, 13:57 2
  - but it's also like very weird that the higher-ups will see photos of jeff and i and be like, are those two dating? -- nm - kare Jan 9, 13:59 1
    - "what is up with that hair?" -- nm - pigby Jan 9, 14:01
- my manager sent out a warning email this week to let us know that the publisher is on facebook and to be careful. - Callisto Jan 9, 13:51
I was always all about compartmentalizing friends (my version of no food touching). Facebook has somewhat thrown that out the window. -- nm - Dano Jan 9, 13:44
eh, my manager is goofier than I am on facebook, I think. - Callisto Jan 9, 13:42
I don't friend work people on Facebook. That's what LinkedIn is for -- nm - oblique Jan 9, 13:42 1
- this is my answer -- nm - Roger More Jan 9, 13:43
My best friend -- who makes Farrow look PC -- showed up on Facebook today. This is going to be interesting. -- nm - David Jan 9, 13:42 1
- My high school seems to have just found Facebook. The number of people from my graduating class has like quadrupled in the last 2 months -- nm - oblique Jan 9, 13:42

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it's always a little disconcerting when work people start friending you on facebook. i have a couple bigwigs friended on mine and i sort of don't know

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