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0 pointsbasch6y ago0 comments

It wouldnt be as big a deal, had facebook started as your "public" identity, like linkedin. But instead everybody who signed up 10 years ago was using it as their "private identity with a couple friends."

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drewzero16y ago· 4 in thread

I'm glad it's not just me. I've pretty much abandoned my facebook account because it's full of all my stupid high school personal stuff, and doesn't really feel relevant any more.

Yesterday a colleague had me link a third-party application to a business-related page using my personal account, and it felt like a huge invasion of my personal sphere to have pages for a band I was in ten years ago appear on the list next to the business' pages. (Not to mention giving this third party access to all of my personal information in order to allow it to help manage a few public pages.)

Do social media workers have some kind of strategy for managing their public and private identities? I'm considering creating an alternate account just for business pages, but that seems a bit disingenuous to me.

_jal6y ago

> Do social media workers have some kind of strategy for managing their public and private identities?

Got me, I'm a social media refusenik. I have only encountered one third party application for work that was lazy and broken enough to require FB login, and I made up a throwaway account specifically for it. (I also had to remove all the 127.0.0.1 entries for FB names in /etc/hosts, but that's different.)

Does doing that feel disingenuous to you because of Facebook's expectations, or a different reason?

(I personally have zero problems with lying to FB, given that FB routinely and consistently lies to the rest of the world in order to decrease others' ability to not do business with them.)

distances6y ago

I haven't managed to create throwaway FB accounts for a while now. It always ends up requiring a phone number, and I don't have throwaway phone numbers.

jonathankoren6y ago

I have three email addresses not counting my work email. It’s me for professional stuff, a private one, and a junk one for accounts and mailing lists. (Ironically, only my professional one gets spam.)

Not counting work, I guess have three or four Google accounts. (Ironically, none of them are gmail.)

Frankly, I never use the social media sign ons if I can avoid it.

cameronbrown6y ago

I use a wildcard email forwarder on my domain, it lets me easily look like different people while using the same inbox.

mirimir6y ago

Way back, Facebook was a place to post pictures of yourself being very drunk.

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