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Friday, April 16, 2010

Where is my Personal Space?

have been wondering and thinking if i should delete my facebook account. maybe im just paranoid or maybe i am really too affected by my boss.i have people from my office who are my "friends" on facebook too. and so when i have updates or pictures uploaded or when i made comments, everyone can kinda see it. and somehow, some of the comments i made or updates that i made, according to my boss, can be misleading. 

seriously, i was appalled. this is because i never put things like " i hate my job " or " i hate my boss " or " i wanna quit " something like that. things that i put on my FB are mostly personal. yes some of them are evoked from frustrations at work and it may be linked to that BUT it's not obvious, at least to me. unless you know me or are working with me or whatever.but even if it's obvious, DOES IT MATTER? this is my personal life and i am a human. whatever happen will affect me in some ways or another. agree? so why am i devoid of this right simply because i have work people on my friends list? this is absurd!

i remembered there was this time, i said " i need to stop shopping" and my friend outside of work commented that i need not stop shopping as im earning $50,000 a month. now, this is a private joke between my friend and i as we always tease each other about how "much" we are earning. and my boss (who is also my friend) actually told me that this is very misleading because people might actually think that i am earning that much money (in hkd of course ) and that we are giving the wrong image to the other teams. SERIOUSLY, this is too much. i told him this is a private joke between friend and i. and he suggested to me to comment back to say i am earning $500,000,000 or some absurd numbers so that it's obvious that it's a joke. SERIOUSLY. isnt this too much? 

and yesterday, im not sure what happened but i think there are some negative comments/gossips about me in Singapore. somehow, these comments/gossips kinda reached my global manager and i think she might have mentioned something to my manager. so my manager told me again that i must be extremely careful with my friends in Singapore. he emphasized again that they may appear to be friends but they are not friends. he again told me to be very careful of what i say to people in Singapore and i should really do something about my FB. seriously, FACEBOOK AGAIN??? this sucks. i was kinda frustrated and i almost deleted my FB account but there are many who arent my co-workers. i thought about deleting those co-workers but then i think it's not worth it at all. 

this really pissed me off as i really hate it when my personal life is affected by my work life. anyway, have decided im going to keep my FB account and will block certain comments from those co-workers or maybe i should create a 2nd FB account. HAHAHAHA. but too much work for something that is personal. seriously, this sucks.

3 comments:

Yi Lin said...

Ms Wang, I think FB does allows u to customise ur comments settings so that its not open to everybody.. Give it a try..

HANNAH said...

yeah i know. i did that already. HAHAHA.

Anonymous said...

Seriously this FB thing is shit, prying on our private lives. its really bullshit. I want to be virtually unreachable sometimes.
We all need and outlet, why cant we just say want we wanna say. Fb is suppose to be a socialising tool not a tool to use against us at work

---kel

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