Which situation is more uncomfortable: the boss who friends an employee on Facebook and receives no response, or the employee who receives the friend request and feels obligated to accept? Many would argue each situation can be equally unsettling.
A recent survey conducted by Liberty Mutual’s Responsibility Project found “56% of Americans think it’s ‘irresponsible’ to friend your boss on Facebook, while 62% of bosses agree it’s wrong to friend an employee.” There are certainly enough blog posts written about why employees shouldn’t friend the boss on Facebook, but what advice can we give the boss?
Continue reading... We live in an age of ubiquitous collection of personal information. In turn, the availability, volume and richness of online data are creating significant new benefits for all participants in the information economy. This digitization was accompanied by other paradigm shifts – as information migrates online, it becomes easier to find, and, in many cases, permanent. Consider that even when you think you’ve erased emails from your web email service, they may still exist as an archive or backup in the provider’s database. Pictures posted to a photo-sharing service may live on indefinitely in a search engine index.
May 13, 2010
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