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Once you leave school for good, it seems like your life can be absolutely consumed by work. Gone are the days of hanging with your hundred closest friends in the caf, which have now been replaced by 8 hours of non-stop contact with two officemates, who you may or may not get along with. Your social life is completely upended and when work begins to take up the majority of your time, it stands to reason that it may begin taking up the majority of your social time as well.
Since your life now revolves around your dwindling paycheck, it makes sense that the people in the cubicles next to you now compose the majority of your friend groups. Results from a Millennial Branding Survey, which, yes, is apparently a thing, millennials are likely to add around 16 of their coworkers on Facebook. I personally don’t have that many coworkers, so that seems pretty excessive to me, but it’s becoming clear that our work circles and social circles are blending in our generation like they never have before.
So is this a good thing or a bad thing? Well, it depends. On one hand, your workday will go much, much faster if you don’t hate the guy in the cube across from you, and looking forward to bitching about your boss over $3 happy hour margs will make 5:00 get here before you know it. On the other hand, there’s always the potential for things to go terribly, terribly wrong. Call in sick? Better make sure your only Facebook statuses are about chicken noodle soup instead of the Grey’s Anatomy marathon you’re binge-watching. Drunk tweets? Keep those to a minimum, especially if your boss hits you with a follow request. As a Pew Research Center survey found in 2014, 16 percent of employees had a lower opinion of their colleagues after observing their social media presence.
At the end of the day, it’s probably a good thing to get along with the people you spend 40 hours a week with. If you like them and you trust them not to rat you out to HR, a Facebook friend request may be in order. For everyone else, make sure those limited profile settings are up to date, so you don’t have to turn down your boss’s friend request, but they don’t have to see you blackout in NOLA either. .
[via Forbes]
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Steph W.
Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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Recently broke my rule of not adding co workers, the guy sends me a poke not 30 minutes later.
No need to worry, he just wants to have sex with you.
Pokes are still a thing?
Better to be unexpectedly poked on Facebook than in real life I guess
I am making $89/hour working from home. I never thought that it was legitimate but my best friend is earning $10 thousand a month by working online, that was really surprising for me, she recommended me to try it. just try it out on the following website… http://bit.do/FOX92
If I made an fb status about chicken noodle soup or a television show I only deserve Facebook friends named Gladice or Dolores
One of my coworkers friend requested me the first week I started. Not wanting to be a dick I accepted. He got promoted to my manager a month later so I can’t put anything fun on social media anymore
Not being able to add any coworkers on social media. PGHRP.
The loneliest department.
I still do it, but I’m selective