#48

Dude that’s what DiS is for. Sweeping generalisations !

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#49

I can tell from this that you’ve never met a patent twat.

#50

I do !

#52

Only really use Twitter, so follow a few people who post interesting stuff.

#53

It’s a pretty big firm, so when I joined it, I was aware that some of my FB friends (old school or uni pals, or people I just knew) worked there. I wasn’t exactly going to unfriend them!

In my old firm I had two of my closest work friends on FB but that was it. I’ve now got more from the old place now that I don’t work there any more.
Back in the day when I was afraid of someone tagging me dancing on Mojos’ bar at 3am on a Tuesday, I was properly para about having workmates on there. But now any 3am postings on a tuesday are me complaining about toddlers who don’t sleep, and far lass likely to have me sacked.

#54

That’s sounds awful and not very west-of-Scotland.

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#55

I’m really old and I have a load of old colleagues I’m friends with on FB and consider to be actual friends

#56

To be fair it’s pretty hard for a toddler to get to sleep in Mojo’s bar.

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#57

I block them from seeing my Instagram stories because they don’t deserve that good stuff.

#58

Nope. Should probably be on the work group chat in case anyone needs a shift swap, but apparently it’s full of mindless non-work talk.

#59

One colleague who I like a lot and has a kid the same age as me, we occasionally hang out outside of work, so we’re friends on Facebook.

My boss follows me on Twitter which is slightly annoying, but doesn’t throw me off my excellent posting game too much.

Have a WhatsApp with two colleagues which we use to slag everyone else off.

#61

Have a rule, only once people leave.

#62

Reckon people find it confusing, I’m basically mute at work, but have a hint of personality on Facebook

#63

i found it very odd when i first started as i’d left a small and generally very friendly and happy workplace, now i actually quite like it as i don’t need to make small talk with the pricks :grin:

#64

Only since half of us were made redundant - I want to hear the stories of how everything is not just going downhill but falling off a cliff after we’re gone and the management realise how they’ve fucked everything up.

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#65

Nope!

#66

Few ex colleagues, who are more friends than anything. No one from my current work place

#67

Yeah, use fb more and more for work stuff (sharing articles, creating events, joining networking groups etc) anyway so being friends with someone on there is a good way of making sure they’re in my network without having to make much of an effort.

#68

2 that i’m friends with but that’s all.

in my old job we all added each other on facebook eventually on a night out, still have most of them on there but noticed recently that a couple of them eventually deleted me. pricks

#69

oh and one other who recently left, had to mute him cos he posts too much shite but he’s a lovely guy.

think it’s maybe just less of a thing as you get older. was always adding people when i was younger, rare now. feels a bit needy or something. i’ve worked with a couple of interesting people that i won’t see anymore and would have been interesting to have an online connection but it just doesn’t really feel like A Thing in the same way anymore.

i just noticed the other day that a cool person i worked with briefly in a temp job a couple of years ago has now published a book and has a podcast so i can probably get away with giving them a twitter follow