Emergency Mailbag: Should she “Friend” her boss on Facebook?
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Should you “friend” your boss on Facebook? We just got this request in from a reader, and we thought we'd post it for the group to weigh in:
new problem:
an 8th year i.e. someone very much the boss of me (isn’t everyone?) just found me on facebook and wants to be added. i took a look at his profile and he’s friends with most of the senior associates and about half of the partners in our group. we are friendly and he’s a nice guy, but we are not actually friends.i don’t know what to do. i like to keep facebook for just friends, so i don’t even add people that i am acquainted with, or people i used to know (like people from high school that i haven’t seen in years). but i don’t think that rejecting the invitation is a good idea considering that i am supposed to be trying to integrate myself into the group. and wouldn’t limited profile be obvious, like what am i trying to hide?
is this the end of my facebook? there’s nothing bad on there, but it is my personal space.
help!
Eeesh. We hate these decisions. We would probably accept him as a friend, but then our Facebook friends list has become overrun by former classmates from our Midwestern hometown who just discovered Facebook. (And boy, do they love to update their status.) In other words, we're not really too picky about it — unlike LinkedIn, where we only link with people we could happily recommend to someone else. On the other hand, you could ignore him — if he asks about it later you could lie and say oh, I haven't checked that e-mail account in ages, or “Oh, you know I saw that and then totally forgot about it” and let it go. We'd probably do the latter if we had an active dislike for this guy.
Readers, weigh in: what would you do? (Also, if anyone is so inclined, become a fan of Corporette on Facebook!)
You want for real? – I inadvertently invited my complete contact list, on what I still believe is either a virus or bug – bottom line – 5500 people invited. Government officials from countries around the world, old bosses, CEOs galore… yep…. where does the etiquette start in that scenario… employees, old employees, old girlfriends, psychos, ex-wife’s gynocologist…. yada yada… I kid you not… And it gets better, because after the first round of invites is sent, Facebook then…. yes, wait for it….., automatically re-invites the no-shows… but all is not lost, they say they do not utilize fax numbers yet (i.e., 2 emails with no response, and then they will start sending fax invites… ). Yikes…
I’d accept and then quietly “unfriend” him after a few weeks. He’ll never notice!
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