Monster tries to muscle in on LinkedIn with an app on Facebook

[Lockhouse]

It kind of raises the question: If your permie work colleagues knew all about your home life, would it destroy your career?

Well destroyed more than it currently is...

That would depend on <ahem> which Facebook ID I made them friends on...

[doodab]

It kind of raises the question: If your permie work colleagues knew all about your home life, would it destroy your career?

Well destroyed more than it currently is...

I have a couple of staff members from previous clients as facebook friends, we have other mutual friends as well. Doesn't seem to have done me any harm.

But then my career is in tatters anyway

[KentPhilip]

It kind of raises the question: If your permie work colleagues knew all about your home life, would it destroy your career?

Well destroyed more than it currently is...

[DS23]

I make a point of not using facebook and only use LinkedIn for business purposes.

wns

[Bunk]

At the moment........

Yeah, I can see Facebook rolling out a few features over the next few months to stop people defecting to Google+. They've already announced their video chat thing with Skype.

[doodab]

Yep, I have normal friends - I'm talking in a business context (Pirate outfit an' all).

Ooo arrr.

[SueEllen]

This is actually one of the (or possibly only) interesting thing about Google+. You can make up circles or lists which you add people to, and then you can share things with only a particular group. So you could have a Friends circle and a Colleagues circle, and share completely different things with each group. Facebook assumes you want everyone to see everything.

At the moment........

[Bunk]

This is actually one of the (or possibly only) interesting thing about Google+. You can make up circles or lists which you add people to, and then you can share things with only a particular group. So you could have a Friends circle and a Colleagues circle, and share completely different things with each group. Facebook assumes you want everyone to see everything.

[Lockhouse]

I too have a Chinese wall between LinkedIn and Facebook. There's only a few people who are connections\friends on both. It's not just that I have abolutely no wish to mix the two, but it's also quite impractical. My permie work colleagues knowing about my home life? Not in a million years would I want that.

[norrahe]

I make a point of not using facebook and only use LinkedIn for business purposes.

[Bunk]

You'd be surprised how many people already post all sorts of social stuff to LinkedIn. Some people have obviously seen that you can connect Twitter to Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Buzz etc and just drive everything from one source. I end up seeing some friends' updates 3 or 4 times. I'm like Cojak, complete separation between personal and professional, and keep Facebook locked down so that potential clients can't see photos of me stumbling around clutching a bottle of Jack Daniels.

[cojak]

Don't you have any other friends? I only have a couple of fellow contractors on there, the rest are normal people. Well, normalish.

Yep, I have normal friends - I'm talking in a business context (Pirate outfit an' all).

[SimonMac]

I just saw this today, keeping well away, personal and business never mix.

(I have even gone a bit OTT and taken down my persoanal website while I am looking for a contract so it can't drop me in it if I'm googled lol)

[doodab]

And I only have fellow contractors (who are friends) on FB..

Don't you have any other friends? I only have a couple of fellow contractors on there, the rest are normal people. Well, normalish.

[cojak]

Something called BeKnown. Mixing social with professional???

Commercial suicide I tells ya!

I have a Chinese Wall between Facebook and LinkedIn. I have no connections/Likes to Professional Orgs or Vendors on FB and I don't join 'I hate the Glazers' groups on LinkedIn.

And I only have fellow contractors (who are friends) on FB.

Anyone who's drank with me while wearing a pirate's outfit basically....