Short Post: Personal Transparency & the Mom/CEO rule
Although Facebook, Twitter and other social networks allow me a slide-rule of access privileges and the ability to create lists of who has access to what, I have neither time nor energy for that sort of rule creating and maintenance.
Instead, I have one simple rule: I don’t email, post, blog, status update or tweet anything that I wouldn’t feel comfortable being forwarded to my CEO or to my mother. So, while I talk about my kids I don’t tend to say their names or give many specifics about their schooling or the like in print. Since my wife is an equally public person, I have no issue talking about her. Sure, somebody enterprising can find out a lot about my family, but I don’t make it easy for them.
A lot of folks who talk about how Millenials are a different species when it comes to media talk about how they, ahem, let it all hang out when it comes to sharing intimate details, drunken photos, et cetera, and how recruiters and HR specialists with an internet connection and rudimentary skillss are turning those deets up.
That’s not about media so much as it about being young.
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