What to do about coworkers and bosses and social media accounts?

Should you connect with bosses, clients and even coworkers on Instagram? FB? What to do to walk that line?

Disclaimer: Dave and Matt are not your HR Department or lawyers. For all legal related questions around hiring, firing and even your own internal social media rules you should consult a paid professional aka lawyer.

TL/DR version of "Should you connect with bosses and coworkers on Social Media?"

Dave of course says it "depends". The other answer is much longer so read the transcript or listen to the episode! Sorry it really isn't something that is easy to sum up.

What social media networks should you worry about?

While there are many social media networks out there we focused on the following for this episode:

LinkedInInstagramFacebookTwitter

Will Hiring Managers Look at Your Profiles?

Good lord yes they will or should. Whether the person is a recruiter, HR, future coworker or boss just assume that some or all will go looking for you online. They will likely find your various social profiles and at least poke around a bit.

LinkedIn Tips

Dave talks through some things he did when he worked in-house and at an agency. From hiding his contacts to updating his job details/wins each quarter. If you have a large success or win why not add it? If you constantly add things it wont raise a flag with internal recruiters, bosses or HR that you might be looking which going from a dated profile to very robust is a clear signal!

Tips for Business Owners/Management

As a manager and owner Matt connects with employees but lets them ask for the connection. He doesn't want to make his employees feel awkward saying yes or no to a request and put them on the spot. He also suggests that as a manager or owner that you are consistent with whatever you do.

Tips for Employees

Dave gives his tips which includes being consistent for all coworkers and think about the long and short term. Think about if one coworker can see what others can't do you put them in a tough position?

Full Transcript

Matt Siltala: Welcome

to another exciting episode of the business of digital podcast featuring your

host, Matt  and Dave roar. Hey guys,

excited to have another one of these episodes come to you. How's it going over

there, Dave?

Dave Rohrer: It is

going. It is not a Monday. It is a Friday. We are recording and clearly Matt is

ready.

It's

Matt Siltala: been

a long day. Yeah. We won't get into it, but, um, we're here chatting about fun

stuff today. I always love doing these episodes.

Dave Rohrer: I

don't know if this is a fun stuff.

Matt Siltala: Well,

I enjoy doing these episodes with you. This is, this is a, well, we do it for

you guys. Well, this

Dave Rohrer: topic,

well, no, this is fun. Yes. 20 minutes of talking.

We do before, but the, um, yeah, this topic is a, I think, a

dicey one for many people. It is sides of the aisle.

Matt Siltala: It

is. And I think you and I bring, you know, we were talking before we started

recording. Now you and I have great perspectives on each side of this as a, and

we'll just [00:01:00] jump into it, but without keeping you guys like in this

suspense, what is it guy?

You know,

Dave Rohrer: it's

Matt Siltala: what

to do about, yeah, exactly. You already know what to do about coworkers and

bosses and connecting with them on all the. The different socials that are out

there, you know. Anyway, we're going to, I guess we're going to dump, jump into

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, you know, we can talk maybe about

others, Reddit, Pinterest, uh, um, things like that.

I mean, those are the big ones. And so, um,

Dave Rohrer: so

yeah, it's, I think every instance is a bit different and everything.

Everyone's, how they treat it. And. On Facebook, I th I'm pretty sure that at

least once a month someone's on there talking about, you know, how, how do you

accept, o