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"Managing Your 'Private' Life on Facebook While Developing Business"

This post was written by Michelle Golden: "I'm witnessing an increase in the number of people creating "extra" accounts on Facebook to help them manage (separate) business and private personas.

This might seem like a good way to manage privacy such as protecting kiddos or allowing you to let your hair down among close friends and family while maintaining your professional decorum among business associates or even strangers who want to know you, even if you don't know them.

Others do it not so much for privacy concerns, but to avoid sending business-y messages and links to family and "old" friends who aren't into your business. That's thoughtful for sure, but there are other ways to manage this. 

Having multiple Facebook accounts is a bad idea for several reasons, one of which is that it violates Facebook's Terms of Use (see 4.2)

...But let's talk about the other reasons you might not want to divide your "friends" between two accounts in the first place...."

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Source: Golden Practices Blog, 2 November 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on November 16, 2010 (boomark / email).