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By: Campus Entrepreneurship

Campus Entrepreneurship — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:27:12 +0000

Great points made by many. One difficulty in using different social networks for different parts of life is that everyone else may not respect your boundaries. You may meet someone through work and they hit you up on Fbook. Happens all the time.

BTW, we just discussed this topic last nite in a class I teach. The senior management majors were all well aware of the dangers of social media to their careers. Not sure how many really cared though or ‘edit’ themselves.

By: Yuri Artibise

Yuri Artibise — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:33:49 +0000

Why be schizophrenic? I have one brand, online and off, professional and personal. What you see is what you get. If prospective employers don’t want to acknowledge that i have a personal life, I don’t want them as employers. If your personal life is so sketchy that you are afraid of it being found out, chances are that your employer will find out soon enough.

Also, the fact that the Cisco applicant even got a job offer is proof that the resume/interview based way of hiring people is flawed. Having a robust social media presence that shows all 360 degrees of you, vs a two dimensional resume, will help to ensure that you are indeed the right fit with any potential organization you are looking to work for or with.

I think David had some good advice to learn to take ourselves a little less seriously. I’ll hire somebody whose social media profile knows s/he can have a bit of fun, than a sterile corporate drone with a sterile online profile.

By: David R. Albrecht

David R. Albrecht — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:52:25 +0000

I think others have the right idea. I use LinkedIn for business, Facebook more for personal/social, and Twitter strictly for professional, public stuff. Even as someone in my mid-20s (relatively young), it’s hard to fathom a world where things are never forgotten. Maybe we can all chill out and learn to take ourselves a little less seriously?

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:30:32 +0000

I have 2 Twitter accounts for this reason. One is for my family and close friends and is private. My other is used for research, networking, and is public. I figured this out a while into my Tiwttering career, but nothing bad seems to have happened yet.

By: Mike Dover

Mike Dover — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:14:12 +0000

A colleague of mine has a very rich twitter profile. He uses it to display his expertise in his research area which is mostly related to technology and marketing.

His policy for Facebook (which he uses mostly to post pictures of his family) is that he restricts access to people that he would, in real life, welcome into his home.

By: thelady

thelady — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:56:31 +0000

It is too dangerous, even if you do not say anything inappropriate the odds that someone you friended will say something inappropriate is too high. I have Myspace profile set to private and my Facebook profile is unsearchable. Why risk it?