Work 2.0
Posted in Life on 05/20/2009 06:59 am by enjanerdI have this addiction to social networking sites. I remember thinking it was a cool idea when sixdegrees started… then there were friendster, myspace, orkut, facebook… I never use these sites for anything useful, but I just want to fit in. ;)
So, of course, when my realtor invited me to join linkedin a few years ago, I jumped at the opportunity to join yet another social networking site. Because why not?
Now, at the same time that I’m joining every online whatever possible, I go to great lengths to keep separation between my online and offline personas. My “professional” email address is different from my work address, which is different from my personal address, which is different from my mailing lists address.
This is all starting to get a little muddled though… Fortunately, I had enough of a clue to use my professional address for linkedin because I got an invite to join Boss^2′s network yesterday. I know him; we even work together from time to time. So, sure, I add him.
Then I check my email this morning on my way to work… and I have another linkedin invite. From the CEO of my company. Well, I can’t not add him.
But if these people start adding me on facebook and twitter, that’s where I draw the line. Good thing my blog is so boring. They’ll never read this… ;)