When I joined Facebook in…oh, I think February, I set two rules for myself. Rule #1: If I was going to cave and join this time sucking social network that I had been against for so long, I was going to make sure that I had more “Friends” than my husband. Because something is not worth doing if you can’t be better at it than the person you share your life with. Rule #2: I would not be “Friends” with anyone who I work with, and I would not seek out people who I know that also work for Starbucks, but if they found me, and requested my “Friendship”, and they did not work for me directly I would consider the request. Rule #2 has caused me great difficulty in fulfilling Rule #1. The employees who work at my store know of my rules, and therefore have not requested to be my “Friend”. That, and the fact that they may have realized as I have that if we are “Friends” they would not be able to say whatever they want about what an awful boss I am. And let’s face it, I want to go on thinking that they think that working for me is the sweetest gig they ever landed. Up until a few weeks ago the Facebook lives of my employees and I never intersected. That was until one of them popped up as someone that I should be “Friends” with. I also came up on her page. Not because we both work for Starbucks, but because we both went to Long Beach State. I brought it up to her, and we both thought it was funny. Well tonight I got my first friend request from someone from Starbucks. A former employee of mine who actually works at the store down the street now. I accepted her request, and I wonder what will unfold now in the world of Facebook/Starbucks connections.
So my question is this: If you are on Facebook, how do you draw the line with who you will be “Friends” with, or is there a line at all?
I have the same rule of not adding anybody i worked with to the FB friendlist. You would think otherwise due to the number of friends that I have. FB was one of my ways of ranting about work every once and a while. Since I no longer work, I’ve actually only added one friend only to keep tabs on how crappy the place still is. And ya. it’s still crappy.
Hhaha. I wonder who that co-worker was….
I’m not friends with any of the boss’s from work, so they won’t know how often I FB at work. I also don’t accept any request from someone who was mean to me in High School. If you didn’t like me then, you don’t need to know me now.
Hey, Liana–I’m Carla, and you came up on my new blog as a computer generated suggestion. I live in a really small town–2,000, where everyone knows everyone else. The dilema is I am a school teacher and my students and I have the same FB friends, so it really didn’t matter if I accepted them or not–they could see my posts anyway! I decided to accept them all, and just watch what I say. Everything has to be appropriate all the time, unless I go to other friends “inboxes.” It is working, and it keeps me honest and accountable–not a bad thing for me, because I have a bad habit of spouting off anyway! So, good luck with the employee thing. It is difficult to refuse acquaintances.