How many of you use social media primarily for work? How many of you mix work and personal life, e.g. by sharing personal photos on Facebook also with work colleagues?
I've been giving this issue a bit of thought in the past days, as I was "forced" to sign up with Skype, because the person who wants to interview me for a job requested to do so via this medium (but thankfully switched to scheduling a phone interview after all). As most of you know, I am not a phone person, and will not use Skype for personal calls. I like face-to-face talks, I like writing - I dislike video.
What about Facebook? Here I mix. I primarily use it to share photos of the kids with my friends, but I've increasingly started using Facebook to find out about the work world. I'm slowly - only now - realizing that I need to do the same with Twitter - to be on the receiving end of information.
A few years ago, I "defriended" all my colleagues on Facebook. That is, those that I didn't get along with personally - and whom I felt uncomfortable sharing personal photos with. I had a LinkedIn profile as well for this latter category, but chose not to use this. Life is too short to work with people whom you don't like, if you can choose. Or at least they don't have to enter my cyberworld on top of being a pain in my "real" world, right?
I yesterday read an article (SZ Wirtschaft). It was on different types of bosses (very funny, actually - and I kept thinking that I fall under the category tyrant as a mom...), but one key message was that you should try to keep work relationships professional, and not mix these with your private life. I disagree with this so far, although objectively I guess this makes sense. Work world, private world. Work media, social media...
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