Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's show how talk about social media abuse and we're going to take a different

perspective because I think a lot of folks are really excited about companies

collecting user IDs and passwords from folks and we're not going to talk about that.

That's what you might think we're going to talk about and safe to say we don't encourage that practice, right?

That's not a good practice.

But we're going to talk about the

other side of the coin the abuse of social media by employees folks who work for

you during company time and and I think we're going to surprise some people here I really do

So I think sometimes folks confuse our position on social media and we're not we're not against social media you're not against it are you Martin?

No I like it. Yeah I don't really love Twitter I think it's just more advertising

but I'm a little bit unusual in those regards but I like social media. What we're talking

about here though is people who are constantly checking Facebook, people who are

tweeting incessantly, you know, 50 times a day, people are on Facebook, you know, times a day people are on Facebook you know 50 a hundred times a day

you know the fact is that's ineffective and the question is what do you as a

manager do when one of your directs is having trouble drawing the line on what is

too much.

And I think you're right, I think your answers are going to surprise people because we have

three points and the first point is ignore the social media initially.

Honestly, we don't recommend when you see one of your directs abusing social media,

when you constantly see them going to websites and then shutting them down as soon as they walk by you walk

walk by or constantly on Facebook, constantly on Facebook,

constantly tweeting,

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