Monday, March 23, 2009

Managing Multiple Online Personalities

One of the problems with social networking is drawing the line between what's personal and what's professional. For some, there is no line. They're ok with full disclosure. Others would like to keep things separate and hold on to some privacy.

A friend linked to a blog post describing a good, simple way to keep your personal and professional social networks separate: multiple browsers. The author suggests using a different browser for each network (his setup: Firefox for work, Safari for personal), with some customization for each network (color schemes, default pages, etc.) to further reinforce the difference. A neat solution for those trying to keep their work persona separate from their private, personal life.

1 comment:

Jessica Sheets said...

I imagine it's only a matter of time before those lines blend for everyone. Once us old fogies, with out boundaries are out of the social network picture.