isn't that really a problem about what happens when people who segregate their personal/professional lives have social media links to people who don't?
Yup, I think you're onto something there.
I'm in a weird position, in a way, because I do a soft segregation: my real-world identity is not secret (it's in my DW profile), but I downplay it to some degree, mostly post about different things here, and try to discourage people from the professional side from coming over here unless they really *do* want to interact with me on a personal level. Conversely, when people from DW come over to the professional side of my life (as happens occasionally), I give them my work email address and try and do most of the professional interaction there. This mostly works OK for me because the people I know on DW are, in general, very familiar with navigating pseudonymity online, and are good at respecting boundaries around that.
At present I have a slow trickle of (para-)professional people who I get to know personally and connect with on DW, and a slow trickle of DW people with whom I've wound up doing professional stuff. It's currently happening at a rate I can handle, but I fear a destabilisation of that balance.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmmag
no subject
Date: 2010-07-03 12:10 pm (UTC)Yup, I think you're onto something there.
I'm in a weird position, in a way, because I do a soft segregation: my real-world identity is not secret (it's in my DW profile), but I downplay it to some degree, mostly post about different things here, and try to discourage people from the professional side from coming over here unless they really *do* want to interact with me on a personal level. Conversely, when people from DW come over to the professional side of my life (as happens occasionally), I give them my work email address and try and do most of the professional interaction there. This mostly works OK for me because the people I know on DW are, in general, very familiar with navigating pseudonymity online, and are good at respecting boundaries around that.
At present I have a slow trickle of (para-)professional people who I get to know personally and connect with on DW, and a slow trickle of DW people with whom I've wound up doing professional stuff. It's currently happening at a rate I can handle, but I fear a destabilisation of that balance.