Supervisors FB Friends with Staff?

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Thoughts? Seems like a clear boundary issue...shouldn't a supervisor "defriend" subordinates?

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Specializes in OR.

I don't really believe there is an ethical issue, but um.......... common sense issue for the subordinates?

Do you really want to put up that facebook status of being hungover then make a call-in to work and say that your car battery died?

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Specializes in Cardiac Cath Lab, LTC.

Yes. I'm a supervisor and have learned by experience...........no work "friends" on FB...........period

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Specializes in Psychiatry, ICU, ER.

Yeah, I wonder what people that friend their supervisors are thinking. Not only do I not friend them, I block them.

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Specializes in ER, Trauma.

Oh heck no. FB is where you let your hair down. No matter how good a friend you are with your supervisor, your just asking for trouble. As the saying goes "Don't s#!t where you eat."

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Specializes in Home health was tops, 2nd was L&D.

You can like your boss and be friendly but do not 'friend " them on facebook. Just wrong on so many fronts. And bosses should not accept friends from workers. Just asking for trouble.

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Specializes in Psych, Chem Dependency, Occ. Health.

I think it depends. If you use Facebook for professional networking, it is probably OK. If it is just a social tool for you, probably better to pass on adding supervisors/administrators to your network.

Sue

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Asking for trouble. I am very picky about who I friend from work,

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I have it where people can't even SEARCH me on facebook. ONLY friends can see anything I put on there not friends of friends nothing. and I went through and filtered all of the people I don't know/don't talk to anymore....I don't want anyone seeing things about me or the things I do on my free time, it's none of their business.

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Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.

I used to be FB friends with my supervisor until I found out that she was using other staff's FB accounts as a way to nail them for various things. I set my account differently, and she no longer has access to my news feed, my postings or pictures. I didn't want to completely block her, so I simply tightened up my settings.

In the future, I will not friend anyone in a supervisory position. I am also very careful about which friends have access to what information.

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Specializes in Home health was tops, 2nd was L&D.
I think it depends. If you use Facebook for professional networking, it is probably OK. If it is just a social tool for you, probably better to pass on adding supervisors/administrators to your network.

Sue

I may be wrong but isn't Linkedin meant for networking??? Me..... i still have been know to actually hand write a letter. :yeah::yeah:

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Specializes in ER.

I personally don't think you should be friends with supervisors (even if they're not ur direct supervisor) unless you guys were already bff's prior to them being a supervisor. I have co-workers as friends on fb, but I have all of them added to my "work" list just in case I really didn't want work to see/know something. In general, I kep what I say regarding work to the bare minimum. As, someone else mentioned earlier, blocking them is a good idea. Better safe than sorry.

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