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I have a dcm that is requesting me to be her friend on facebook. Normally I refer my dcp to my daycare facebook page but she searched my name and is requesting my personal facebook. I don't have anything on there that I would be embarrassed for her to see but it does have some old party pics that friends have posted. I don't know... I just feel like this is crossing the line between friends and clients. Am I being paranoid? Wwyd? I went ahead and accepted her request because I didn't want her to think I had anything to hide or didn't like her for some reason.....just feeling awkward about it, like this is kind of invading my privacy:confused:
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Nope. No clients EVER have access to anything I have that is personal. EVER. -
When I started a year ago I was pretty dumb and figured a ton of stuff out as I went along. In the beginning I MYSELF requested all my DCPs as my FB friends. I would post some things nice about loving my new job, excited about kids (didn't name names of course), and posted comments on their pics about how cute the kids were, especially their infant pics if that was before I met them at 2 year olds. It was nice and friendly and everyone got along and nothing turned bad about it.
However after awhile as my business developed more and more professionally I just didn't like it anymore. So I actually just quit FB altogether (I've recently decided how stupid and a waste of time it is! Now I just have a dummy account I use to lookup new potential DCfamilies I might be interviewing and see whatever might be public).
So I think it really is up to you. If you don't want them to be your FB friend then by all means DON'T. I seriously doubt she'll read as much into as you're thinking. You can always unfriend her and she probably won't even notice for awhile. And then if she friends you again, just don't respond, it seriously won't be a big issue, and if it is then she's weird. :P
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I had some dcp's on my fb page from before I created a page just for dc parents. Its never been much of a problem because I'm not a "share everything" type on fb but I did get annoyed when they'd post about their kids being sick or about them having the day off (in both cases kid still comes here). And now I have a handful of former dc parents on my personal page and I enjoy seeing the kids get bigger. I don't mind having them on there at all.Comment
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You need to start categorizing your posts and pictures. You can set them for friends/family/all. You can choose who sees/reads what. No reason to set up another account.Comment
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I do have daycare parents as friends on my facebook page because I have nothing to hide from them. I don't really care if they know what goes on in my life as I don't post anything I wouldn't want people to know about. They probably do it to be noisey and see if they can find out anything interesting, but there is nothing to find out, so I don't care!Comment
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I have a daycare facebook page and a personal one. The only DCP on my personal one are people who were friends before they were clients. Now I wish they weren't on my personal FB. I'm not sure why, it just doesn't feel comfortable. I don't post anything weird or too personal.
If another DCP tried to friend me I would feel obligated to accept, so I'm not sure what I'd do.Comment
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The only time any parents are friends on my personal fb page is when they are previous clients. No current ones. I feel so much of my life is wrapped up in my daycare, but sometimes I feel like having something personal.lovethis daymommy to 7 kiddos - 5 girls and 2 boysComment
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All of my DCP have access to my personal FB as well as my daycare FB. I don't have anything on there to worry about. You can choose who gets to see your post before posting if you would rather have some things private. I have never had an issue though.Comment
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I don't mean to hijack the post, but I set up a daycare facebook page & I think I may have done it wrong. It only has an option for people to 'like' the page, not actually be 'friends' with it. I have all the daycare moms as friends on my personal fb page, but I'd love to get them all off of there & only let them have access to the daycare page. Anyone know how I can change it from just a 'like' to an actual 'friend'?? I've tried everything I can think of.Comment
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I allow clients & business contacts as "acquaintences" & carefully limit what I show them. Even so it makes me uncomfortableComment
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I am 100% transparent with my dcps and have nothing to hide from them. I am friends on fb with many of them. It has never once been a negative issue whatsover.Comment
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I wouldn't do it, I would have just said you have a DC facebook page and referred her to that and added her as a friend on that page. I don't have anything to hide on my FB page but the last thing I want to see during my off hours are the DCK's on facebook
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