Are you going to add or accept a friend request in Facebook from your superior?

I have not add in my boss into my facebook as a friend because he doesn't know how to use the computer that well and he says it might be difficult to create an account as he forgets everything due to work. If he ever did create an account I would accept him as a friend since the boss is my dad. Haha, yea I work for my dad.

Yes I will definitely accept their friend requests. One of the highest managers in my previous work is my friend in Facebook. He even send me game requests and I helped him in some game quests. Even my supervisor is my friend there. I don't see anything wrong about that since I don't put stuffs that will complicate my work.

Hi there! I appreciate your views and I also feel that it will not in the fitness of things to add our superiors or bosses on Facebook. Facebook is somewhat personal and if we add our superiors, we expose ourselves to them to the extent, we may not like to.

I used to be friends with the majority of my co-workers, including my supervisors. At least in my younger days. But now that I've lived and learned and realized just how the laws of the land work... HELL NO. I no longer make friends with my bosses or with my co-workers. (Referring back to when I had a job and wasn't working from home)! This is often mistaken for rudeness when it's not. I don't want any sort of falling out between friends to cause difficulties in my workplace. I don't like drama and it's the worst when it happens at work and you can't escape it without having to find a new job. I live in Illinois, an "At Will" state. A boss can fire me for just about any reason he or she wants to as long as its not due to my race, religion, disability, sexuality, or family/marital status. People here have been fired for things that they post on their Facebook or even for using Facebook on a day that they've called in sick!! Im certainly not going to be giving a boss access to anything else in my life! No friends requests acccepted from strangers No requests accepted from a friend of a friend. No requests accepted from bosses or coworkers. I like it nice and simple (:

Never!!!!! I do post things there that might cost me my job. Here, too. I always rant about my boss and my job. So, no, the farther away our own personal lives are, the better. One of my former bosses is my friend at FB, but I only added him after I left (and he, too) the company. It's too awkward. LOL

When I was working I did not add any bosses of mine, in fact I would go to my settings and search for them and BLOCK them. lol Simply because I did not want to mix my personal posts with any of the bosses. I did however add work acquaintances, and since I really don't post much personal messages I am fine with them being there.

I don't see anything wrong with adding bosses. I mean, they're human too, right? Unless of course you don't like your boss or are superficial in your office about who you are - it would be difficult for you to lie about some things people post about you. hehehehe.. I only add my bosses if they add me first. I don't do the first move. . However, if my name isn't familiar there, perhaps I would only if my other officemates have added him too. Have a great MyLot experience ahead!

This is something that I do not recommend at all. There is nothing but problems from this. I was friends with a co worker on facebook but then he became my boss, and ultimately, the person who fired me. Luckily, I didn't talk to him much on facebook so it was easy to let him go. In a way I had to because I have made a lot of prolific posts on there and I didn't want any of that used against me.

For me not because for now since then I don't have the account in Facebook because I don't like it very much.

I agree with you, I would not add my boss to FaceBook either. I see it like you, work is a professional relationship and FaceBook is much more personal. So, don't worry about it.

It is not important to add your Boss into your list of friends in facebook and you should never feel obligated to do so. A boss is only someone superior to you in business terms and it is not recommended to invite him into your facebook network. The action of adding him might jeopardise your job or relationship between your boss as if he acknowledges something about you present on your facebook account that goes against his liking. I have never added my boss in my FB friends list. In the event of which I am forced to do so by him, I would just add him, then secretly block him from viewing my posts and anything that is personal of which I think I should prevail from him.

I don't think my boss would ever ask me to add him. I agree with you facebook should be a private thing, or you should join a facebook site of your work. There is no reason to share every private thing with your co-workers or boss.

I haven't come across to my mind to add my boss' facebook account. I don't bother myself to something like that.

My boss is on mine. He is awesome. At work he is respected and we have a great friendship. He lets you do your job and doesn't interfere unless needed. Out side of work he rocks. I don't do anything outside of work that would cause me to worry about him seeing. Plus I limit what is on my facebook account. My kids are my friends on it so I have nothing to hide or not want my boss or kids to see.

haha the thing is i do not mind having office mates see my posts in facebook. i am not that active in my facebook account anyway and most of the posts or pictures happen in the office. i am friends with almost all of the superiors i have worked with. those who add me up on their pages are those that i have spent time chatting with too, that our relationship has gone deeper than superior and employee relationship. that is why i know that it is okay to be friends with them in facebook. if they have added you and you do not want to offend them, perhaps, you can accept the friend request and just make sure that you remove them or restrict them from seeing your posts or activity in facebook. anything that they are not tagged into, you are safe to say they won't be able to see it. I am sure they won't mind it if you do not add them though, unless they take it personally... i am not sure as i am not the one who knows your bosses to say how they are as people / friend / etc. Let us know how you are able to manage this, and hope you get to choose wisely! =) he he

I do not blame you on this one. I know the lady from our LP is on FB and many have her as a friend which concerns me as if she reads something mentioned could it cause damage to our employment? We all say things about how awful this day or that day was but we don't need the boss going up to us questioning things. As far as I know my bosses are not on FB and the one that is my age won't do it either.

For me, it would really depend on whether or not I had any kind of a relationship with the boss outside of work. So, for most of the bosses that I've had in my life, I would not add them on facebook. However, a couple of the charge nurses that I used to work with at the hospital, if I would have been a facebook member at the time that I worked there, they would have been friends of mine of facebook because we did have a relationship outside the walls of the hospital.

My previous boss did add me on facebook, I didn't ignore him nor accepted him. I just let it there on my friend request. Even if he is already no longer my boss, I still feel it not safe to accept him. I ranted so many things about him and the company before and with the timeline, I can't be sure he can't dig it up. Even if he is so good to me, there are still so many issues concerning the company and an employer there that I am not comfortable sharing my status and all. I don't care what he will think, but I will not be adding him, ever

I don't see any harm in adding him, if he is willing to admit to being a human as well as -being your boss.

I have....but only because I have already filed for Early Retirement. If I was still, in anyway, connected to the company, then I probably would never have. :D