Get to know your new co-workers. Invite them to coffee or lunch, and maybe you'll end up forming a bond and starting hanging out with them outside of work. I'd recommend a minimum of one, but at least two months," Winnie Kim, a millennial financial consultant, said in an interview with Moneyish. When in doubt, you can always add your co-workers on LinkedIn, which is a more career-oriented social networking platform.
But unless you're self-employed or trying to brand yourself for professional purposes, you may want to consider creating a separate account that's appropriate to add co-workers. Many CEOs and even celebrities have two profiles: One that's public and "more professional" for colleagues and one that's private and "more personal" for family and friends. It's also important to know your audience. If your profile is public, don't post anything you wouldn't want your boss seeing. Keep excessive drinking, drugs and other potentially offensive material out of your photos.
All it takes is one person seeing the wrong thing, and you could be the object of workplace politics, gossip, discipline or even termination or legal action in a worst-case scenario! Instagram has a "close friends" tool which allows you to separate those who can see your posts from those who can't. There's also no harm in keeping your profile private.
If you're just naturally a very "open" person, you can keep your content public as long as they're an indication of trust and transparency that reflects well on you. Potential employers, in particular, always appreciate transparency, so, if appropriate, it might even help if you're job hunting.
Debby Carreau is an entrepreneur, author and founder of Inspired HR. She has been recognized as one of Canada's Top 25 HR Professionals and is a regular contributor on multiple TV shows, Entrepreneur Magazine and many other print and online publications. Like this story? Even if the person you are dissing does not have access to your Facebook, another employee might, and if they are particularly close to the individual they may show them your post.
You can be fired for that type of behavior. When you make an update on Facebook, the update is time stamped. What happens if you make an update at PM, when you are supposed to be working hard on a project with a short deadline?
What happens if you missed that deadline and the employer sees that you were on Facebook? What happens if you are tagged in an album and your employer accidentally thinks that you were the one that posted the photo, even though you were not?
You can control your status updates and the photos you post, but not everything is under your control on Facebook. You cannot control what people post on your wall or what they tag you in. You called in sick on Monday. You can also customize who sees or does not see your News Feed posts.
Below the text box, on the right-hand side, next to the "share" button, there's a pull-down menu with a padlock icon. Using this, you can set your post to be visible to "everyone," "friends and networks," "friends of friends" or "friends only. You can even remove individual recipients. Remember: Anything you share with "everyone" can be seen by anyone on the internet -- not just anyone on Facebook. On a related note, think carefully before changing your status to "in a relationship" with someone in the office, unless you want it known by everyone and are ready for the potential Facebook fallout following a breakup.
Set your privacy settings to the highest level. You might think you're only posting to friends, but search engines can see loads of Facebook information unless you have your privacy settings cranked up. Google yourself regularly to see what information is publicly searchable on your Facebook pages. Assume your coworkers, supervisors and potential employers will do the same. By default, friends, likes, groups, hometown and current city, relationship information, gender, networks, and work and educational history will show up, as will your wall postings.
Moreover, some information -- including your name, profile picture, gender and networks -- will always be visible to outsiders, no matter how high you set your privacy settings. According to Facebook, others must have access to this information so that they can locate, identify and connect with you. Facebook does not currently grant third party applications or ad networks the right to use your name or picture in ads, but nothing prevents the company from engaging in this practice in the future.
If you don't want this to happen, adjust your account settings accordingly. Sometimes a picture is worth 1, words too many. Watch those profile photos and photo albums. Remember, profile photos are always visible to search engines, so think twice before you swap your tasteful headshot with something amusing or potentially distasteful.
Be careful of how much skin you're showing and, as always, be conscious of what message you're sending about yourself. Even conscientious Facebook users often overlook this issue. Photo tagging is another dangerous blind spot. You never know when one of your friends will post an embarrassing or inappropriate picture with you in it, and then tag you so that the photo appears in the "View Photos Of…" list below your profile picture.
Unfortunately, you cannot control who tags you in a photo, or who the owner of the photo allows to view it. You can, however, remove the tag entirely only the photo owner and the tagged person have this ability.
You might also want to set Facebook's notifications to tell you whenever someone tags you in a photo. Delicate situations at work are best handled privately and politely: No one loses face and you minimize the potential fallout of reputation or morale.
People are generally more receptive to constructive criticism and discussion when approached with quiet civility. What's more, successfully handling your own interpersonal conflicts maintains your reputation with your supervisors, who may resent you pulling them into the affair or feel obligated to escalate it further if you do.
If you handle the situation online, however, you risk blowing it out of proportion or even expanding its scope office-wide. Knowing when to take matters offline also applies to expressing your interests and opinions.
Fair or not, people judge us according to the image we put forth. In the real world, a boss, coworker or client might think less of you or even silently harbor ill feelings toward you, because of your clothing, a bumper sticker on your car or even a coffee mug slogan. How much worse, then, might they react to you joining a sarcastically named group on Facebook , or stridently expressing a tactless or divisive attitude on a sensitive subject? Should I follow her advice?
Or is it OK to be friends with them online? What about LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram? To say you won't connect with coworkers online is erring on the side of caution -- especially if their opinion of you can impact your professional and financial life.
Bosses who follow certain employees and comment or like their posts on Twitter TWTR or Instagram can be accused of favoritism. Coworkers may fret over pictures from parties they weren't invited to, adding nastiness to office politics.
There are real examples of people who have been fired because of social media posts too.
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