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It seems it's the norm on my unit that nurses are also in touch through social media. It has always been my intention to keep my work and private life separate. However I am finding I have more in common with the other nurses than my friends I grew up with (who I seem to be outgrowing) so I have been considering bending my rule for a handful of nurses.
What are your thoughts on this? Are you connected with coworkers on social media?
I never had a coworker fb friend until recently. I thought about it before I accepted her as a friend. I became conscious of her presence every time I thought about posting about work. I never write anything awful or specific but I thought through what could happen to those posts. It turns out we have a mutual friend. It's a small world. I can look at my friend's friends' posts. Just keeps me on the straight an narrow.
I don't use my real name on Facebook so becoming FB friends with a coworker would mean that I'm the one that seeks them out and does the friend request. I am selective about who I have on my FB and I would only have coworkers on mine if we really truly had a friendship that was maintained outside of work.
I am friends with a few of my close coworkers that are also my personal friends outside of work. I keep FB light though and never post anything about work unless it is something funny one of my pediatric patients say (out of the mouth of babes!). I do not post where I work on my FB and I do not like my hospital's FB page either. There is nothing I post on FB that my boss could not see. I am careful though and most people at work I would not want them anywhere near my page.
Yes but I rarely post anything other than pictures of my two cats (so I now have a reputation as our resident crazy cat lady). I'm selective about who I add. We do have a "secret group" for our department so we can coordinate last minute schedule exchanges, ride shares, etc., but it's thankfully never been abused.
I'm Facebook friends with all including our boss, and anything I post is tame enough to be appropriate for anyone to see. I've never been one to broadcast my inner thoughts on social media. I gain a view into their lives and happy moments, and they see a few goofy pictures of me and my hobbies. It's created some bonding moments in the lunch room, so I like it!
I'm FB friends with a couple of people I've met through work, but I never discuss my line of work on social media, even though most of my friends know I'm a nurse. I just find that so much easier than studying what seems to be labyrinthine privacy settings that seem to change often enough to make me think I might post something really dumb at just the dumbest time and place.
I'm not perplexed by computers, though! Not a dinosaur who refuses to learn EMR!
Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN
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I am. But then, we hang out outside of work time. I also don't post anything on Facebook that I wouldn't say to my boss's face (who, coincidentally, is also one of the Facebook friends).