Several excellent comments came in regarding the Facebook series. I will share them with readers during the course of this week and next. This is the sixth of several posts:
I have invited several people to be friends simply because they listed Zayo as their employer. Thanks to Jeff B, I will not do this anymore.
” I recently joined Facebook… and had a business colleague send me a Friend request. It posed an interesting dilemma. I do not consider this person a Friend nor a Friendly (nod to Seth G) and found it rather intrusive for him to do so. I have a LinkedIn and Plaxo account for that kind of connection. Out of politeness, I accepted his request. I’m not sure I should have and will probably think more carefully in the future.”
As for ’strongly encouraging’ your employees to create accounts, I think that might be pushing it. As the head of your company, you set the tone, mood and demeanor for your organization. I’m sure you are well aware of the influence your opinion will have on your organization and and I’m sure many employees will willingly open accounts and create a Zayo community. But I think that will in some way intrude upon the Facebook community of ‘personal’ by forcing business networking into the environment.”
In fact, I am considering de-inviting Zayo employees. If they ask me to be their friend, that is fine. However, me asking them might not be as good of an idea as it once seemed. Thanks Jeff B.
Mark, at least, made me feel a little better:
“I joined Facebook at your prompting.”
Mark, hopefully you didn’t feel coerced. Facebook-do I get a commission?
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