Comment by Rayanne on July 27, 2009 at 2:08pm

You can close off your facebook completely - only open to your friends. The security is pretty easy to manage. But if you already have business friends, that may be more difficult to disengage them from your personal page... You can always invite them to your new business page and then slowly delete them as friends on your personal page. A notice does not go out when you delete a connection, most may not even notice, especially if your business profile is active.

It is important to remember that the internet is, indeed, forever....

Comment by Steve Sill on July 28, 2009 at 1:51am

Yes... everything that Rayanne said.

Comment by Ambrish Kochikar on July 28, 2009 at 3:08am

Even as we all read and maybe learn through our personal experiences or shared experiences that the line between personal and professional, social and business networking is slowly beginning to blur, it seems to me that as a professional myself, I'd rather know less about a contact's personal life, or just as much as they would care to share over a telephone conversation than have too much information about their personal life (which is common experience on a platform such as facebook). Then again, it might just be me not 'getting' the social networking phenomenon to begin with. :) I think LinkedIn and professional Twitter accounts or affiliations to blogs are all perfectly meaningful and resourceful ways to communicate with your professional network in a more open and share-worthy manner.

Comment by Suzanne M King on July 29, 2009 at 3:41pm

Well said, Sherry.

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