For many of us, as parents, we are posting pictures of our kids on our personal profiles and we may not want those to be shown to the world… Someone may have been really nice at the recent networking event, or when you connected in a business Facebook group… but you don't REALLY know them. In this episode we'll explore how to balance privacy concerns with accepting friend requests from people who you are not intimately familiar with.
There are some business owners who create 2 Profiles – one for PERSONAL use, and one for BUSINESS use – do you do that already? If so, listen up – that is AGAINST Facebook's terms of service and it can result on you having all of your assets lost… huge pain in the behind! I have seen this happen to friends of mine, and tons of people when I was working at Facebook. If you have more than one Personal Profile I HIGHLY recommend you use this as your trigger to clean things up and start running them compliantly so that you don't lose everything.
Facebook has built in tools that allow you to control who sees what. In the video below, I'll walk through the whole process:
I hope that this information has been helpful and that it helps you connect with more entrepreneurial friends, clients, and business connections, in a way that will allow you to build real relationships and build your business without jeopardizing any privacy concerns you have as a family.