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Social media allows us all to stay connected, but that may not always be a good thing.
Social sharing and the workplace have a history of blurred lines and issues. Should you be friends with your manager on Facebook, knowing what they get up to when not at work?
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Would that be healthy for your on-going business relationship? Are you both entitled to a private life, or, because you work together, is everything fair game?
According to a study by intranet platform provider Igloo Software[2], two-thirds of workers are connected to their colleagues on social media, which has caused issues in the past.
It polled over 1,000 full-time employees for its state of social media in the workplace survey.
It discovered that more colleagues are connected with each other on Facebook (91 percent) than on LinkedIn (41 percent), and only 10 percent of employees avoid connecting with their managers on social media.
Seven out of 10 reported that they choose to connect with colleagues with who they share a friendship outside of work.
Almost half (46 percent) of workers say that they worry about what co-worker connections think of their social media posts, and 55 percent admitted they have decided not to post something because of a colleague connection.
One survey respondent commented that an employee complained about a negative experience with a co-worker, only to have that exact co-worker read the post. Another employee posted "party" nightlife photos on social media, leading an annoyed co-worker to unfriend that employee.
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