Sorry for coming late to this - after no messages for over an hour I suddenly have all the e-forum emails come through at once!
Thanks for all the locked/unlocked comments - very interesting and I'm going to have a re-think about what to do with my account. Like Celine I can see the balancing act being tricky. I had intended to use Twitter solely for work related stuff, and keep Facebook personal. I started locked while I got used to things with Twitter. But as friends outside work started following me, and as I started to get to know work-related people better and met them in real life I found that the personal/professional boundaries blurred a bit and I never got round to rethinking.
How many people have separate work and personal Twitter accounts?
Helen
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From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of C.J. Carty
Sent: 28 March 2012 11:00
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Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Personal/professional separation
This is an interesting question as I originally kept my Twitter/blog use solely professional and extremely limited. I still don't really follow any "friends" on there, pretty much everyone is library or cataloguing-related.
If I used Facebook I'd probably keep the personal stuff there.
However, over time you get to know people and are quite friendly with some of the colleagues - particularly if you also know them in real life. So there is definitely a growing sense that my account has more of a personal/professional blend (I do now mention my children, or talk about knitting, or whatever) with the people I know quite well. It's an odd thing and not what I originally intended. However, partly it's a good thing as I have made some great friends through Twitter just as you might have good friends at work. It's a slightly uncomfortable balancing act I find though.
Celine
On Mar 28 2012, Claire Choong wrote:
>I try to be relatively anonymous anywhere I'm on-line, mainly because
>all my accounts are personal rather than officially for work. If we
>used social media in the library I would definitely keep this separate
>from any personal accounts I have.
>
>Claire
>
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>From: Taylor, Wendy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 28 March 2012 10:35
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>Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Welcome!
>
>Thanks for all your comments so far. I'm interested that Annie keeps her
>Facebook account for personal use - I imagine many people make this
>distinction. I have a separate twitter account which I use to just
>follow non-library people. Do others feel the need to keep separate work
>and personal accounts?
>Wendy
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Céline Carty
English Cataloguing
Cambridge University Library
Cambridge CB3 9DR
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