More on the perils of social networking sites
January 18th, 2008 by Benjamin KuoHere’s an interesting piece in USA Today (of all places!) about the perils of mixed social- and work-related social networks; the lead in story is from a local technology PR person, Wadooah Wali, at a high profile Internet company (which I’ve covered fairly regularly) in Los Angeles.
As I said before, I’ve been amused (and sometimes horrified) to find all sorts of things in Facebook profiles and other social networking sites from business associates which–in a day and age before social networking sites–I’d rather not know or see. Everything from politicial and religious affiliations, to things better left out of work and business (mostly involving alcohol or partying, but sometimes nudity and sex). Does it you at work to know your boss hates all the movies you like? Or, worse yet, the person you had been looking at promoting joined the “I hate my boss” group on Facebook?
