Is it possible to have a "professional" and a "wild" persona,. and keep then totally separate, without jeapodising your professional reputation ?

Pictures of someone vomiting at a party may not do their reputation as a teacher of teenagers much good at all.

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Coincidently I had just posted a relevant comment in the other "Facebook" thread as you were typing this.

Anybody I would want to work for would appreciate that people treat their work and social life separately, and would be concerned only if it appeared I was incapable of separating the two.

No, I don't think it is possible with LinkedIn and Facebook if you go to those extremes. For your wild and crazy life you have to resort to forums like this e.g. where you don't use your real name.

Personally I use LinkedIn for mainly professional contacts and Facebook mainly for friends. On neither do I however reveal very much information about myself.

Yes, if you have two separate accounts, use different names and emails and be very judicious about who you friend on which accounts. I know some part time writers who do it... not because of their wild personal lifestyle, but because what they write conflicts with their professional persona. This does require that you use a nickname or alias of sorts on facebook.

Of course, why anyone would care to post a picture of themselves vomiting online or even have one in their posession is beyond me. But I can see where you might want to have a rather staid professional presence online and a more lively personal presence.

I think it unlikely that anyone would get a clear shot of themselves spewing, but that doesn't stop some holier-than-thou-treehugging-hair-shirt tosser thinking it's really funny to publicise it before someone punches him the face.

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Ms Deirde Dare probably could give us a master class on on line personae clashing with professional lifes:
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I have to admit that i have a very detailed linkdin and xing profiles, and a more fuzzy facebook. I try to control whatever pictures/comments appear on facebook (not that i have wild life, but nevertheless witty comments can do a lot of harm). Once you go on-line, your whole spheres become interconnected even if you try to control what information comes in there. It is virtually impossible - or at least very difficult - to control the flow of information of 3rd parties and how it disseminates.

This is my proposal for Word-Of-The-Day. An alternative would be propagates.

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Do you think these people would let me look after their kids if they knew what I got up in the real world!?!

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I followed the link below to the legal website and then this link, which shows how lawyers celebrate their profession in a snazzy range of clothing. Sad.


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No. But I don't think that is unique to you. I think if most employers had an open-book view of their employees' exploits, they would fire the lot of them. Unless being a knob is your job of course...

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