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I have a dilemma. I have a facebook account, TBH I do not use it much mainly talking to close friends and the workmates I see everyday. I went on tonight and found one of my workmates talking to our boss. That is the last straw for me I like to keep my life and worklife separate when it comes to bosses, he's up to no good. Do I have to deactivate my account to stop him seeing what I talk about with my other workmates? I have no intention of accepting him as a friend even if he asked which he probably wouldn't but I do not want to lose facebook because of this.
Thanks.
 
Im no expert, but if you click on the little cog near the top right then click on the settings option from the drop down menu. From here if you click on privacy in the left hand menu it then brings up a screen where you can decide who can see what
 
If you send a message to a friend on it and they reply, people on their friends list will see your post. Therefore, if you've anything to say to someone, either be prepared to share it with the whole world, or send a private message.

Your friends can 'unsubscribe' from you, which means that you're posts won't be sent by their friends if they reply to it, but you have no control over their subscriptions.

Facebook and work doesn't work. I don't even have many family members on mine. In fact, my feed is full of golf stuff.
 
Just make sure that all your setting are set to friends only and do this from the main privacy setting option, rather than per post. It sometimes defaults posts etc to 'everyone'.
 
virtuocity said:
If you send a message to a friend on it and they reply, people on their friends list will see your post. Therefore, if you've anything to say to someone, either be prepared to share it with the whole world, or send a private message.

Your friends can 'unsubscribe' from you, which means that you're posts won't be sent by their friends if they reply to it, but you have no control over their subscriptions.

Facebook and work doesn't work. I don't even have many family members on mine. In fact, my feed is full of golf stuff.
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not to be confused with pm's. pm's won't be seen by friends, obviously. Just 'wall or timeline' posts.
 
Word of warning watch what you write re work and your workplace. I had to represent someone last year who they wanted to sack because they took offence to his comments and claimed the comments were derogatory. Google some cases especially in America. Unbelievable. Best advice is, don't have people in managerial positions on your friends list.
 
Personally I think he has been told to search out his men by higher up the chain to spy on us. Typical of my firm and it's underhand ways. I have deleted my account to save myself any hassel. A shame but I think very necessary. I'm seething over this.
 
a poker playing friend of mine was on trial with a firm in a mortgage consultancy role. He "failed the trial" when they found out the stakes at which he was playing poker (albeit that wasnt the final reason given) through his facebook account
 
fundy said:
a poker playing friend of mine was on trial with a firm in a mortgage consultancy role. He "failed the trial" when they found out the stakes at which he was playing poker (albeit that wasnt the final reason given) through his facebook account
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I used Facebook when recruiting. I saw that someone had planned to move in 3 months time 400 miles away. The candidate had the audacity to deny it when I told them to not bother coming for a face-to-face interview.
 
You cannot guarantee that your posts will never be seen by your workmates/managers. Once it's there, it's there! Don't slag off your company or anyone who works with you on ANY social media site. Only morons put things like that in writing. Have a moan with your mate over a beer in private.
 
drawboy said:
Ok so that looks like work has ruined another aspect of my life, I'll deactivate my account, the .......
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Nah, not at all. Just block him!

Have you signed a social media policy at work?

wrighty1874 said:
Word of warning watch what you write re work and your workplace. I had to represent someone last year who they wanted to sack because they took offence to his comments and claimed the comments were derogatory. Google some cases especially in America. Unbelievable. Best advice is, don't have people in managerial positions on your friends list.
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Im afraid to say that I have disciplined someone for making derogatory remarks about one of my Managers but within the same FB post releasing what was then sensitive information that if picked up by our wider customer base, could have caused massive issues.

And to drawboy's point, a 'subordinate' tipped me off who wanted to remain anonymous. I quite easily accessed the comments in question as her profile was set to public. So I understand where ya coming from but if ya don't trust the guy, block him and you can carry on with your social media liking in a relaxed state.
 
Odvan said:
Nah, not at all. Just block him!

Have you signed a social media policy at work?



Im afraid to say that I have disciplined someone for making derogatory remarks about one of my Managers but within the same FB post releasing what was then sensitive information that if picked up by our wider customer base, could have caused massive issues.

And to drawboy's point, a 'subordinate' tipped me off who wanted to remain anonymous. I quite easily accessed the comments in question as her profile was set to public. So I understand where ya coming from but if ya don't trust the guy, block him and you can carry on with your social media liking in a relaxed state.
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No doubt the "subordinate" was trusted also. Best advise is to never criticise the company or anyone within it on Facebook or any other form of social media.
 
I have deleted my account and requested it to be wiped (if you know what I mean) this will take 14 days. Small price to pay for a bit of peace of mind.
 
You really didn't need to deactivate your account. You could have simply added him to your blocked list. Once you block someone, that person can no longer see things you post on your timeline, tag you, invite you to events or groups, start a conversation with you, or add you as a friend. Alternatively, you could simply create a "list" and add only specific people to it and then within your Timeline and Tagging settings and "Who can see things on my timeline", add the list you have created. For example, create a list called Private Friends and then only people who you add to that list will see anything on your timeline. Facebook can be locked down and quite restricted if you want it to be.
 
virtuocity said:
Facebook and work doesn't work.
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The above is the best bit of advice you will ever see on this forum. I hate FB. Remember that anything you put on it can ultimately be seen by anyone. My boss asked me to 'connect', but I quietly declined. A bloke in our office put some dodgy photos on it from his new year's eve party, intented for 'FB Friends' eyes only. But they did the rounds here when someone just showed everyone their phone camera.
 
Wayman said:
you can make your profile private so only friends can see what your doing or saying its in your setting some where
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Since we're talking about it - I had a look - so whats's the difference between Close Friends and Friends. My setting was defaulted to Close Friends under Who Can See My Stuff. Do I leave it at that?
 
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