If your immediate supervisor wanted to be friends on Facebook

[JackBeck]

Would you click, given the options that Facebook supplies:

[mcctatas]

1. Delete my frigging account and start over under an assumed

name!

[PaddyBlueEyes]

4. dead wife guy

waves hello.....:hi:

[mcctatas]

6. As long as it's only his hand he's waving...

:evilgrin:

[LynzM]

2. Would depend on my relationship with that supervisor.

Are they your friend, or at least your buddy, where they're not going to get dumb about anything they see on there? Then yes, probably.

Otherwise, no, and just state general policy of not mixing work and personal life. :)

[laconicsax]

3. Leave it alone.

If you click ignore, then they can just make the request again and again. If you leave it alone, if they try to make the request again, it'll tell them that they already have a pending friend request with you. That way you don't have to add them as a friend if you don't want to, and they won't think that you didn't want to.

[RandomThoughts]

5. Special case here

All my PMs and emails get intercepted by other people, so I would have to just pass on that one. :)

[DarkTirade]

7. I'd remove the S&M pics before clicking okay at least.

:shrug:

[LeftyMom]

8. I don't have one anyhow, but absolutely not.

While I make a point of not saying anything on the internet I wouldn't answer for elsewhere (I'm just ballsy everywhere, so that really doesn't equal much restraint) prior experience tells me that leaving my work and personal life as separate as I can keep them is good policy.

I'd try to phrase this in a nice, somewhat self-effacing way such as "you're my boss, and I really don't want you to see pictures of me wearing a stupid hat at a New Year's Eve party when you look at me across the conference table" rather than telling that person that I didn't appreciate the blurring of boundaries.

[DS1]

9. not my two clowns

[Skittles]

10. send message

tell 'em you don't fish off the company pier

[tjwmason]

11. Limited profile.

In my line of work, the intra-office use of Facebook is widespread. My line-manager isn't on there, but several colleagues are and are friends with me.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. my supervisor, vp's and ceo are my facebook friends

even the ones from utah. i have them on limited profile (cant see racy pics) but i figure if they want to be my friends, they have to deal with my political tirades