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Do you treat connection requests differently on Facebook and Linkedin<\/em>? Do you maintain a managed separation between your personal and business social media worlds<\/em>?<\/p>\n The Linkedin Group discussion<\/a> favours you, but here’s what I wrote:<\/p>\n Not really, but also not completely the same. @adrienne’s point<\/a> about functional use<\/strong> lies in the back of my mind, but not the forefront<\/em>. Previously I was strict in connecting on Linkedin in, now I am not open but I accept a few wildcards. As far as “functionality” I might suggest to some people let’s try Facebook instead. On Facebook I used to be strict about “personal only” but I abandoned that some time ago. I don’t accept silly Friend requests or where I just can’t see the point but otherwise I’m very open, and all my information is open.<\/p>\n But here is a funny thing – these days I tend to expect less will come<\/strong> of new connections I accept on Linkedin than on Facebook, and I mean in the broadest sense of “expectations”. Facebook is extremely multifacted, while Linkedin still remains (not quite fair I know) a directory (in my mind).<\/p>\n On Twitter I accept more links more freely and then prune them more often as well. The investment to do that seems much less and the “connection” more of a chat than a “Friend” like meeting at the Gare du Nord<\/a> while waiting for a train and keeping in contact for a while after that, and if it works, for longer. <\/p>\n As far as transparency and the upside and downside, yes I see the arguments but I take the view that with a bit of googling people will find out all they want about me good and bad anyway. As to the fashioning of the interactions to match the audience, I take that as just being part of the development of social norms<\/a> in the environments where you are widely connected – to friends, business partners, mums, dads, daughters, prospects etc.<\/p>\n You know, I’ve reached the stage where when I research someone else, such as a speaker for a conference or an industry leader I’d like to follow, that if\/when I find that they have a totally “private” Facebook page and have walled off their “private” and “business” in the social media that my first instinct, now, is to be perplexed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n How times have changed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you treat connection requests differently on Facebook and Linkedin? Do you maintain a managed separation between your personal and business social media worlds? The Linkedin Group discussion favours you, but here’s what I wrote: Not really, but also not completely the same. @adrienne’s point about functional use lies in the back of my mind, […]","protected":false},"author":6870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128,101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}