How To Please Your Boss and Lose Your Social Network Friends
shoemoney
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2 min read
Did you just jump jobs to a new start-up and your boss wants you to spam all of your friends with the latest company press release ?
BAD IDEA
This is like the web version of Cutco knives, whose whole model was getting kids to sell knives to their friends and family.
But unlike Cutco (where your friends and media can just ignore you), with social networks many times this is my only time dealing with you, and you come off like a retard. Now, odds are I won't remember most of you...unless you have the same last name as me. But the spelling of my last name is so rare it's probably never going to happen... oh wait, it did:
Now, I get emails like this all the time from bots.... but this is Facebook. AND yes, I know it's technically not spam because I opted into our friend relationship, but it still pisses me off.
Guess what, Kimberly? When you leave this start up in the next 6 months because you're jumping to another job or it goes bankrupt, you burned your bridge with me. And I will obviously remember your name.
From reading your wall, it looks like most of your other friends feel the same way:
Now, I get emails like this all the time from bots.... but this is Facebook. AND yes, I know it's technically not spam because I opted into our friend relationship, but it still pisses me off.
Guess what, Kimberly? When you leave this start up in the next 6 months because you're jumping to another job or it goes bankrupt, you burned your bridge with me. And I will obviously remember your name.
From reading your wall, it looks like most of your other friends feel the same way: