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Does anyone have a personal Facebook account as well as a work/family friend Facebook account?
Posted by on June 26, 2020 at 6:55 amI recently landed a job at a new business. My boss wants me to show my support by liking her business’s Facebook page as a means to promote her new business’s growth. However, my Facebook account is really cringe inducing and filled with shitposts and satire memes, I feel really uncomfortable letting my boss see this material. Also my job involves working in the aged care sector, I don’t exactly want my client’s family seeing this sort of stuff too. Do i create a new Facebook page and start fresh? There’s years worth of memes and shitposts so deleting the content on my current FB account isn’t really going to be effective. Has anyone been in a similar situation?
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It’s normal to have another Facebook account or many others if needed for work 🙂 Facebook is where all your information can easily be exposed to others, much more than Instagram and Twitter. You can consider marking those into the restricted group right after adding them (under friend lists), restricted accounts can see nothing on your profile update other than public posts.
edit: just read your post again, she only wants you to like her Facebook page, not adding her as a friend, so it’s much easier, just change all your old posts’ privacy to only friends can see (not public), it’s just one-click under the setting.
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Could make another account for business!
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I have two accounts. One personal account which I only use to occasionally chat with friends who’re only on facebook and one business profile where I manage my customers business profiles. So yes it’s totally normal and if I need to like something business related I use this account.
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There’s a Facebook privacy tool to set all of your previous posts to friends only.
Do that, and boss can’t see it even if you like the company page.
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I had a separate acct for work. I would share posts from my jobs page and friend invite members from our site. I worked for a social media company so it was easy enough to keep them separate!
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You can change the privacy settings for your Facebook posts and then use your Facebook profile to promote the business. If you create another account, you will need to start with followers and friends from scratch.
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I used to have two Facebook accounts when I taught Social Media apprenticeships – one I kept private to myself, family and friends (under a nom-de-plume for safety/stalker free purposes) and the other for professional use. In fact I used to suggest to my students to do the same.
Sometime after I stopped teaching Social Media, Facebook found out I wasn’t using my real name for my nom-de-plume and blocked my account, around about the same time I saw the Great Hack documentary on Netflix, so I just deleted both accounts. Now when people ask me to do things related to FB I just say I havent got one.
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Tell them you don’t have a fb account…
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Get a professional page. I once walked in through resume readings at a company and saw 50% of people rejected because the manager stalked their FB and found their FB content was too “unsuitable” for the brand/company. It sucks. But if you’re in a social media orientated company who do t align with your core personal views it might get tricky. You can also just change privacy settings. But then people wonder why you have a need to keep things private, or have no online presence. Ugh…
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If Facebook realizes you have a separate account, they’ll shut it down. Just make your page private. It’s good practice to do that anyway, unless you’re a public figure.
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