Do you create multiple accounts in social media platforms - one for your business or agency and another personal? If you just use one account for everything, where do you draw the line at sharing personal stuff, discussing politics, etc.? - LauraBrarian
I am pretty transparent. One account on everything and I will be as honest as I can be. Like many of my gen, I think I make less of a principled distinction betweeen the personal and private spheres - Neal "thePuck" Jansons
I'm one-faced. Makes it easier to manage, not to mention more authentic! - Mighty Casey
I am completely in favor of keeping personal and professional life separate. One needs to be smart about what image he/she is portraying online. If your clients don't want to hear about your personal life offline, why would you post that information on your company blog or professional networking site? I wouldn't call it being 'two-faced' or being inauthentic but rather being smart about sharing the right information with the right audience. - Mia
In my former professional engagements, I've been less transparent. Now that I work for a public library, I'm a bit more transparent, but there are still somethings related to the work I do that I won't talk about in social media spaces. I keep personal stuff out of linked in. - Cecily
the separation is an illusion, an artifice, it will matter less and less ... in fact, this separation is why the gap between real life and job can be so onerous for many ... in the new paradigm, it is over already - Gregory Lent
I agree with Gregory. Personal vs. professional is morphing. I think we're fooling ourselves. It's hard to have any thing that's "personal" online. - Angela
Wow, thanks to those who commented directly on my blog. Friendfeed rocks. Guess I might have to get back into blogging again! - LauraBrarian
I think Parr overestimates digital preservation of data from today's social media sites surviving well into the future or the ability of future researchers to find and sort through what does survive. - Liam Sullivan
Liam: My rationale is that digital data takes seconds to back up, as opposed to physical data. Back-ups of data exist, and unless the world experiences nuclear winter, the data will survive. Hell, it'll survive even despite because of server rooms shielded against EMP. - Ben Parr
SilentJay has had enough and is coming for each and every one of you!
From the page: "I have HAD IT! So I am calling you out! You and your whole content thieving team! Recently unsuspecting Social Media users have been lured into up-voted scrapped, ripped, and stolen content." - Greg Davies
Gazan terrorists launched a Kassam rocket at nearby Jewish communities. It landed in the Orchards of Kibbutz Shaar HaNegev. No injuries or structural damage was caused. The "Color Red" alarm system in Sderot successfully detected the launch. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
The word is that the GOP is waiting to see the outcome of the recount in Alaska which may well put Stevens out of office anyway. But what a cop-out. Stevens is corrupt. And even if he wasn’t corrupt is is hardly exemplary of the sort of governing philosophy conservatives should want. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
When he takes office, Mr. Obama will inherit greater power in domestic spying power than any other new president in more than 30 years, but he may find himself in an awkward position as he weighs how to wield it. As a presidential candidate, he condemned the N.S.A. operation as illegal, and threatened to filibuster a bill that would grant the government expanded surveillance powers and provide immunity to phone companies that helped in the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants. But Mr. Obama switched positions and ultimately supported the measure in the Senate, angering liberal supporters who accused him of bowing to pressure from the right. The FISA Amendments Act, which President Bush quickly signed into law, greatly expands the secret surveillance powers of the federal government. The Act also confers retroactive immunity upon the telecommunications companies that participated in the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
