One of my important business contacts wants me to add them as a Facebook friend. What should I do?
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M$15 Answers
If there is nothing on your profile that needs hiding, then what are you waiting for? There is nothing wrong with having business contacts as friends on that site. Networking is one of its main purposes.
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Bugsy, can I be your friend on facebook then? I want to see you do freak weird stuff.
Where I'm from, facebook isn't as widely used as it is in the US; kids use hi5 for social networking. And we speak mostly on Yahoo Messenger, not MSN, stuff like that. But I'll use the linked-in advice.
If I ever do freaky weird stuff, you'll be the first to know. ;)
Whoops. Made my answer before I saw yours. Great minds think alike.
Excellent advice. I'm actually gonna' use this. I want to be able to do freaky weird stuff if I want to. :)
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M$Regardless, you need to live by the following.... if you don't want your momma to read it don't put it online.
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M$etc. etc. etc.
No. No. No.
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Why stress yourself out?
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Assuming you can't do the first two, here is how to edit privacy settings:
Facebook is designed for those who want to keep their information private. You can use your privacy settings to remove your business contact from seeing anything you don't want them to see.
First, go to your top menu bar on facebook and roll your mouse over the word "settings". You'll see a pop down menu appear, click on "privacy settings". On the page that appears, you can change privacy settings for your profile, search, news feed, and applications. In the Profile section for example, you can change sections that say "only friends" to "custom". When you do that, you'll see a popup that has a box saying "except these people". There you can type the name of the person you want to block from seeing that part of your profile. Be sure to save your changes once finished. The only downside however, is that you'll have to do this on every section of your profile. Its a bit time consuming, but it will keep your business contact from seeing unappealing info.
Finally, if you don't like that option you can always say you prefer to not mix friends with business and hope they understand. Then offer to friend them on a more business oriented social network like LinkedIn.
Hope that helps!
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If you have bad pictures, you can choose to show them only your limited profile, which doesn't include pictures!
Myself
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M$There's two questions here. One: Is there anything on Facebook that you would be uncomfortable with a business contact knowing? Maybe it does not rise to the level of Jon Favreau's faux pas, where he hoisted a beer bottle to the Hillary Clinton cardboard cutout, but maybe you don't want the contact to know that you were out partying last night instead of working on his contract.
The second question is, even if you lead a fairly virtuous life on Facebook, do you want business contacts following you at all? If not, then you want to politely decline the friend invitation, saying something like, "I appreciate the invite, but I use Facebook primarily for social purposes."
You might also suggest LinkedIn to him, and get a Linkedin account for yourself for business and professional networking. Linkedin is much better for that sort of thing anyway because it has places to add resume info and recommend other people.
Good luck. And remember, no matter what happens, it will not be as bad as what happened to John Favreau.
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M$what does your page look like and what groups do you belong to
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It is obivous that Facebook has a good business model for getting people to do business with other people within their walls:
Here are some links to prove that:
http://facebookcoach.com/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll_linkedin_facebook_business_contacts.php
http://www.relativitycorp.com/web2marketing/article21.html
http://www.aboutmybusiness.co.uk/discuss-business/business-question_379
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No problem. Mahalo to you too!