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Step 1
Sign up to Facebook with two accounts
If you already have a personal account with your name, you will not want to lose your network so you will need another name for your professional account. Establish your professional facebook account with your professional title such as Esq. just after your last name. -
Step 2
Look at other professional networking sites
If you do not think that you need to be in Facebook for your professional networking because you do not have a need to connect with the companies that have Facebook accounts, move your professional networking to a site such as Linkedin. -
Step 3
Dont accept colleagues into your personal Facebook account
Remember, even if you have a friendly relationship with colleagues there may become a time when it is your job vs. their job or you both are up for a promotion together. You also may think that a colleague is your friend until weird rumors about your personal life begin to circlate at work and you realize it came from Facebook being misinterpreted or maliciously interpreted. Come up with a standard answer to ALL colleagues that write on your Facebook wall and want to friend you in Facebook. Give the same answer to everyone so that they will not be offenced. A standard answer can be, "I use my personal Facebook account for family and only my closest friends who I spend the weekends with, but please go to this Facebook/Linkedin/other social media site where I welcome a broader network of friends and colleagues.
Comments
daconn said
on 11/15/2009 Good advice on keeping personal and professional lives separate.
poe9368 said
on 11/15/2009 Great advice on How to Manage a Facebook Professional Account. Very useful.
crosswised said
on 11/15/2009 How to Manage a Facebook Professional Account was a very good article. Great advice on not friending colleagues on your personal account - that just avoids possible trouble. Rated 5*