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On Twitter, people just follow you if they want and,
likewise, you get to follow whoever you want in your Twitter stream. Unless
everyone starts blocking everyone else, nothing can really be done about it.
Besides, on Twitter that’s really the goal, to gain as many followers as
possible to assist in whatever it is you’re wanting to achieve.
Facebook, however, is a completely different ballgame. This
social media is not about networking so much as it is about friendships. Thus
you don’t just follow people, you have to send Friend Requests and they have to
be accepted. You, therefore, with the help that can be found in settings, have
some control over who is able to see what you post. I suppose it’s because of
that sharing of personal lives that many corporations have guidelines
concerning social media and its employees. I’ve never been very big on
anyone–government, businesses, Santa Claus–telling me what I can or cannot do
on my own time. I also don’t like people telling me who I can or cannot be
friends with. I want to make those poor choices on my own.
Still, I can understand why they feel that way. People can
truly be idiots on Facebook and it doesn’t matter which rung on the corporate
ladder they reside. Human Resources doesn’t wish to deal with the janitor
shouting out how the manager was dancing on the table tops at the local club.
It’s not good for the company image and HR worries about a possible barter
system where favors are exchanged for silence. Of course, it would be great if
this was something no one had to worry about, but adults still tend to behave
like children. And yet, we are social people who wants everyone to like us and
know that we checked in at Taco Bell. So, where do we draw the line?
I honestly believe that depends on you and what you are
ready for the world to see, because even if you don’t accept their friendship,
if someone else that you are mutual friends with comments or likes it, then
there is a chance the one you’re not friends with could see it, regardless of
your privacy settings. I’m of the mindset that if you put it on the Internet in
the first place, you better be ready for your religious grandmother to see it.
Nothing stays hidden forever especially online.
The truth of the matter is, it doesn’t matter whose friend
request you accept. Live your life the way you want and own who you are. If
you’re worried about people finding out, then you shouldn’t be doing it in the
first place. I know there are small-minded, prejudiced people out there, but
why do you care what they think? And why allow other people to dictate who you
can be friends with? That should be your only reason for accepting someone’s
Friend Request, that you actually want to be friends with them. Do you want to
be friends with them on Facebook? Then, by all means, be friends with them.
Both of you behave like adults and prove that friends have each other’s backs
online and off. We can be adults, right?
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