I'm in a situation and I'm not sure what to do. I recently interviewed for a job at a local hospital and got the job. I'm scheduled for orientation on April 14. My problem is that today I got a friend request from the HR recruiter with whom I had my initial phone interview. I'm not sure what's her motive her for wanting to have me as a friend on facebook. They ran a background check on me so I'm not sure what more they want to know.I want to deny her request but I'm not sure if Facebook will send her a message telling her I denied her request. I don't have nothing to hide but I prefer to keep my social life separate from my professional life. Can you guys give me some tips as to how I should handle this situation.
nope. It is part of society these days. You just know how to handle it.
you can say alcohol is a detriment to society. (hence Prohibition) Its not what it is, it is what you do with it.
Social media is here to stay. Nurses are professionals. Don't put your head in the sand. Learn as much as you can about social networking, know how to use it, know how to not abuse it.
there are people that once said that computers are a detriment to society.
technology isn't going away. if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Learn to use it in a positive way
Specializes in med-surg, urgent care, emergency med.
you make a fake FB page..throw her off....or simply 'friend her' and block her so she cant see anything. anyhow.i dont think it's a big deal..chances are..she hardly uses FB anyway, just adding numbers to her list
We just had someone terminated over her FB! She got "jumped" at a bar Thursday night and posted some crazy story about it at 3:30am. When she was late the next morning one of her friends said "I hope she's ok, she FB'd me last night saying she got beat up"
Apparently that was the only person she FB'd... She forgot she was "Friends with the Facility" EVERYONE saw the post! We had older RNs walking around asking "whats jumped mean?"
I'm nosey, or maybe missing the point, but why would they fire her for being attacked?
nope. It is part of society these days. You just know how to handle it.
you can say alcohol is a detriment to society. (hence Prohibition) Its not what it is, it is what you do with it.
Social media is here to stay. Nurses are professionals. Don't put your head in the sand. Learn as much as you can about social networking, know how to use it, know how to not abuse it.
there are people that once said that computers are a detriment to society.
technology isn't going away. if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Learn to use it in a positive way
Some people commit suicide as a direct result of embarrassing online posts of others. While these cases are of the extreme, their obvious connection to social networking cannot be downplayed.
Alcohol provides no benefits to society, other than bringing together people that would not otherwise without liquid assistance.
Keeping my, as you’ve said, "head in the sand" does not inhibit me being a nursing professional. It is a choice to not post my day-to-day activities for all my "friends" to read about, and to not live vicariously through the lives of others; instead, I prefer to utilize my leisure time more wisely.
There is nothing to learn about social networking; it is the downfall of social intimacy. It is a fairytale world where some create a facade of their lives.
Not adhering to the status quo does not mean I am a part of some "problem." In fact, my solution is to buck the trend that has most of society brainwashed into thinking one is an outsider if they are not a part of the new-age norm.
My point is that society can live without social networking, as it had for many years before its existence.
Since when has "society lived without social networking"?? It may not have been FB but ever since the have been people, we have networked. It's just not only by word of "mouth" anymore! The farmer who drove goats to market would network with other farmers headed in the same direction, etcetera. The village matchmaker was the old school version of facebook! What is THIS site, if not social networking??!!
Just because "social networking" has become a catchphrase for FB and other sites like it doesn't change the fundamental meaning of the phrase. If a bunch of people decided that "purple" was the new way to say "groovy" would that mean that even if purple was your favorite color you wouldn't say the word cuz of it's current connotations?? The anti-in crowd is just as silly as the in crowd!
Don't you have the option of just ignoring such a request? That is weird and unprofessional. You should make yourself invisible or something so people can't find your name. FB is stupid anyway. I feel no need to learn anything more about it!
Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
Don't just ignore the request---dismiss it and block the person STAT.
If I'm not mistaken, if someone requests you as a friend and you do nothing, he/she can still see everything you post on FB.
It depends on how you have your privacy settings. I have mine set so that if you're not one of my friends, the ONLY thing you can do is search my name and send me a PM. You cannot see my profile, anything I've written, even if you're a "friend of a friend"
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nope. It is part of society these days. You just know how to handle it.
you can say alcohol is a detriment to society. (hence Prohibition) Its not what it is, it is what you do with it.
Social media is here to stay. Nurses are professionals. Don't put your head in the sand. Learn as much as you can about social networking, know how to use it, know how to not abuse it.
there are people that once said that computers are a detriment to society.
technology isn't going away. if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Learn to use it in a positive way