{"72672":{"#nid":"72672","#data":{"type":"news","title":"What Does Tech Think: Accept a Colleague\u2019s Friend Request?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Situation\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003EA coworker wants to be friends on Facebook. You don\u2019t want to snub her by not accepting, but you don\u2019t know if you want this person seeing what your close friends and family see. What would you do?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Response\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u003Cbr \/\u003EFor Chester Warzynski, executive director of the Office of Organizational Development, he\u2019d accept, but with a caveat. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI would limit what the person could see on my page,\u201d Warzynski said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKara Tillman would do the same by taking advantage of the list feature and privacy settings to categorize friends into different groups.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOf course, nothing is really private once you\u2019ve shared it online with your friends, but this can provide a certain level of control when there is a concern about mixing your personal and professional lives online,\u201d said Tillman, who is director of change management in the Office of Human Resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaren Veasey, faculty support coordinator for chemical and biomolecular engineering, would politely decline the request.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI would tell the person not to take it personally,\u201d Veasey said. \u201cI try to keep the Facebook thing simple and only correspond with family and a few close friends who live out of state.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Santa Ana, associate director of\u0026nbsp;parking, would also let the coworker know that he prefers to keep work relationships out of the social media environment. If something needed to be shared, an email or phone call would be Santa Ana\u2019s preference, he added. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI don\u2019t use Facebook for personal stuff \u2014 for that I use Google+,\u201d said David Terraso, director of communications for the College of Sciences. \u201cI\u2019d be friends with the person on Facebook, but I don\u2019t really post anything there. I just have the account for work.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA coworker wants to be friends on Facebook. You don\u2019t want to snub her by not accepting, but you don\u2019t know if you want this person seeing what your close friends and family see. What would you do?\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A coworker wants to be friends on Facebook. You don\u2019t want to snub her by not accepting, but you don\u2019t know if you want this person seeing what your close friends and family see. What would you do?"}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2011-11-14 17:18:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:38","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-11-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10835","name":"Facebook"},{"id":"15078","name":"friend requests"},{"id":"15077","name":"What Does Tech Think"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:amelia.pavlik@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAmelia Pavlik\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing \u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-4142\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}