[Femme Fatale]

I saw this on the news this morning. Would any of you do it? I did.

[Kii]

Depends on the kind of relationship you and your boss have.
My ex-boss and I used to be relatively close in age, and we were a super tight-knit group at work.

We are friends on both Myspace and Facebook, and were during the time I worked there.

I remember replying to one of his emails, and having a friend go "Are you REALLY saying that to your boss?" (I think it was something along the lines of "F*** off, Tim!" He kept calling me a tree hugger.)

LoL.
-shrugs- But then again, I also have pictures of me and the assistant manager where I worked holding lube and frowning at Walmart. She was great.

But I think in most cases, people aren't that close to the people they work with, especially their superiors. It probably in most cases isn't a good idea and would be more of a way for the boss to "keep tabs" on you rather than just to be friendly.

[this_chick25]

Not at all. I know for a fact that my boss is on Facebook, and she knows that a god half of my family is, but we prefer to not know personal details about each other like how weird your friends are. I have read already about far too many people getting fired because their company didn't like something they said/did/posted on their social networking page.

My job has actually just implemented a Facebook-like internal site for employees only to use, but they want us to personalize it with our own pics and info. It's just opening up a new way for people to get fired or for my company to try and wedge its way into our social lives, IMO. Despite how innovative it is and how good an idea it may be for another time, the way the employment market is, and how easily people are getting fired over over technicalities or minor infractions (so they don't have to do layoffs) it's a bad idea to get into right now.

[ninjaxllama]

One of my current bosses was once my teacher here at school. He said we could add him if we wanted, but I just feel that it'd be kind of weird.
He's a pretty cool person, but I think it'd just make things awkward. lol. I already feel kind of intimidated by him since he's so smart. I feel like
I have a harder time talking to adults who have this very intellectual air about them. Not that I think I'm stupid, but I'm just afraid I will say something
that they think is.

[Jguy]

Hm, my direct supervisor for the Sales side of my position and our Product manager are on facebook, but I don't add them.

Reason? I made a vow that my personal life and my work life do not mix. although, I've gone out to eat with a bunch of people from work, including my supervisor and her husband. She even bought me two beers. Whoops.

[Isamu]

No way in hell.

[jsieczkar]

Yes and no. Two of the Sups at my facility are on my friends list on facebook, but they have very little access to what I post. With all the up roar over the security changes people ignored the fact that Facebook made it so that groups or individual people may be given different levels of access.

[Valkyrie]

Honestly? No.

I may be on good terms with my bosses, past and present (as in if I were to run into them at the grocery store, it'd be a pretty civil if not enthusiastic exchange of hellos and small talk - maybe a bit more conversation if time allowed), but it would be more than a little weird to add them to my Facebook. The way I see it is this: if there's a chance of them popping up in the References section, they don't get added. I don't even try searching for them. Granted, I don't do anything that would implicate me, nor do I usually say anything on FB that would bite me in the butt later, but at the same time, it'd be unnerving to know that my previous boss(es) can see what I may be up to. (I have a couple who likely wouldn't care, since Jamie and I see them at Wendy's and chat about random stuff anyway, but others....no.)

[Neko_master_Luna]

It depends. I have many bosses, some I like, some I hate. Personally I think it breeches on personal involvement. Where I work you are not even suposed to go to the same bar as a boss, it would be considered fraternizing & is not aloud, even if you just happen to go to the same place. We actually had some one get fired for showing up at a lowere lvl employee's bridal shower. Thats kind of sad really, but it is ofr our protection. Don't know if this falls under the catagory, but knowing my company it does. I say if you have some thing in common, you should be able to, but if you don't or you work for the happiness stealing nazis that I do, I would say you better not.

[Lina]

I'd befriend two of the three managers (one's an assistant manager) I have because we basically talk about everything and anything and they don't care. Funny thing is, they won't befriend the employees.

My band teacher wouldn't befriend us until we graduated high school. He would only befriend alumni.

[Mari_Queen_of_Fools]

when i worked at a Halloween store, one of my managers was really cool.
i would've added her.
My current boss on the other hand... that's a big fat no. not that i do anything wrong or post anything wrong, just he's really annoying.

[Rini]

my boss(es) and I are friends on facebook.

However, my boyfriend and I are not. Odd.

[HaruHE]

Not a chance, and I'm pretty sure we all know why. X3

[Neko_master_Luna]

Another problem, if you go on facebook while at work & your not suposed too, I'm betting your boss might too & they can, but not you & surely would yell at you.

[Voxx]

Never.

A previous boss that was awesome, sure. Its like befriending a current teacher.

Its a no-no.

[wrexness]

I wouldn't, but it depends on the relationship between employee and boss.

[Keiichi-chan]

NO.

[redx1]

No Family and no co-workers on facebook. Life is much simpler that way.

[Valkyrie]

redx1, on Feb 26 2010, 06:24 PM, said:

No Family and no co-workers on facebook. Life is much simpler that way.

I used to not have family on Facebook...until I realized that I really don't see or talk with them offline as much as I want to or should. (This especially applies to my relatives out of state, which is the majority of them.) Thankfully there isn't any intrusive behavior or anything on anyone's parts, so it's a nice system in this case.

Bosses are another matter entirely. My family and in-laws are all fairly close-knit (or try to be), and I'm comfortable discussing many different things on FB, even with the knowledge that my sister, mom, dad, relatives and in-laws can and might see it. (That said, I don't say anything that would cause my parents to call and scold me.) But some of these topics are better left between me and my friends and family. I'd rather not have my old bosses peeking into that.

[redx1]

Saphrinka, on Feb 26 2010, 06:34 PM, said:

I used to not have family on Facebook...until I realized that I really don't see or talk with them offline as much as I want to or should. (This especially applies to my relatives out of state, which is the majority of them.) Thankfully there isn't any intrusive behavior or anything on anyone's parts, so it's a nice system in this case.

I guess the does depend on your family. When I had family members as friends on Facebook, I was just bedeviled by them all the time. It was the comments of "you know eric, you really shouldn't announce things like this on the internet..." that drove me insane. My social and recreational life is my business and I can live it however I choose to. So, no family for me on facebook.

[Voxx]

Basically you shouldnt write anything online you dont feel 100% comfortable with the whole world to read...and a lot of people disregard this...and get into a lot of trouble with family/bosses et cetera because they dont realize who they are 'friends' with. Its just better to A: Not to write anything you dont want the world to see (even if its on 'private') and B: Actually add REAL FRIENDS (whether they be family or whatnot, it depends on what you think the term 'friends' are.) instead of adding people just to add them.

[Kii]

redx1, on Feb 26 2010, 07:45 PM, said:

I guess the does depend on your family. When I had family members as friends on Facebook, I was just bedeviled by them all the time. It was the comments of "you know eric, you really shouldn't announce things like this on the internet..." that drove me insane. My social and recreational life is my business and I can live it however I choose to. So, no family for me on facebook.

^The reason I didn't add my mother on Facebook.
She was so offended, it was actually humourous.

[KnitChick]

I dunno.

I do have one of my current coworkers on there, but even if my boss was on FB (which I don't think she is), I'm not sure I would. We get along GREAT (I love my current job to death) but while I don't say anything really bad (mostly moaning about feeling blah or whining that I have homework), I do have some really insane friends who say stuff that's a little... odd? I do have a few relatives on there, my cousins and one of my aunts, though I'd never have my dad as a friend if he were to figure out FB. Because he'd make comments - I mean, he found my MySpace page and yelled at me for the profile pic at the time. *rolls eyes*

I have a rule, I don't add people unless I know them from somewhere. I have a bunch of friends who were people I went to school with, lots of friends from cons (mostly Acen and Chicago TARDIS), and a few friends that I've never met in person but I talk to them a lot on LJ or elsewhere. I also have one of the professors from my current school on there, but I don't mind because she's awesome. When I was an undergrad I might not have friended current professors (if FB had been around), but my program kind of pushes use of social networking technology because that's where the users are (I'm working on my Master's in Library Science).

[mendokuse]

No. Coworkers? Sure. I like to keep my personal life and my professional life separate. Then again, my bosses are a generation ahead of me so it really isn't a problem.

[LADY SAKURA]

that will be a no Alex lol heck i dont even want certain family members as facebook friends
ive learned my lesson on having a coworker on myspace

[Doggeh]

I'm friends with most of my supervisors (basically assistant managers) on facebook. Technically they aren't allowed to be friends with myself or my other coworkers.

I only work at a movie theater though.

[Mystline]

Well, my boss is in her fifties, so we're very far apart in age.
Yes and no, it depends on the situation. If someone's just harassing her for no reason, or anything like that, then I would do more than that.
I'd call the idiots up and rant about how stupid they are about talking like that to such a good women.

[XenoBlade]

Seeing as we have alot of slacked off rules, and the GM being really cool, I wouldn't mind adding him on face book. I just haven't done it yet.

If it was a more uptight business, then no. I have a rule to not to hang out and get all friendy friendy with co-workers. That stuff always backfires (I've seen it happen to much at my job before)

[jackspicer]

Nope, I'm related to my boss. and I complain about work on Facebook from time to time. See the problem? I have a Policy of not talking to co-workers on FB anyway, and besides I'm rarely on FB.

[tweaker]

I gave up on social networking sites a long time ago. They are like big brother exemplified to the nth most degree. Let's go out on the Net and put up all our personal information intentionally. Sounds like a bad idea.