Comments on: Doctors on Facebook: Hide or Seek? http://www.crttbuzzbin.com/doctors-on-facebook-hide-or-seek/ Musings and analysis on marketing, buzz and communications. Fri, 17 May 2013 23:02:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Charles Houssiere http://www.crttbuzzbin.com/doctors-on-facebook-hide-or-seek/comment-page-1/#comment-700694 Charles Houssiere Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:51:55 +0000 http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/?p=8759#comment-700694 I must agree that work and family must be separated on Facebook. It is totally different to have a profile for professional use, promoting your business or as a doctor promoting your practice or getting more exposure by helping others, while on a personal profile you want to share photos with your family and friends. Maybe some people are comfortable enough to not separate the two. I'm glad that the mom received medical advice so soon. Maybe I'm just from an older generation, but when I see my child with a nasty rash that I'm concerned of, I don't take pictures of it and post it to the internet, I immediately go to the doctor with him. I must agree that work and family must be separated on Facebook. It is totally different to have a profile for professional use, promoting your business or as a doctor promoting your practice or getting more exposure by helping others, while on a personal profile you want to share photos with your family and friends. Maybe some people are comfortable enough to not separate the two.
I’m glad that the mom received medical advice so soon. Maybe I’m just from an older generation, but when I see my child with a nasty rash that I’m concerned of, I don’t take pictures of it and post it to the internet, I immediately go to the doctor with him.

]]> By: Hip Implant Recovery http://www.crttbuzzbin.com/doctors-on-facebook-hide-or-seek/comment-page-1/#comment-393043 Hip Implant Recovery Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:24:54 +0000 http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/?p=8759#comment-393043 There's definitely a fine line since the majority of the social channels were started for friends to meet and interact. With the amount of exposure this gives businesses, the waters can start to get a little muddy. It's a delicate balancing act between being held accountable for what you say, and not saying enough to keep people interested. Dual accounts is a great solution so the businesses can maintain family and professional contacts, and still allow an area to interact with past or future clients to earn that trust. There’s definitely a fine line since the majority of the social channels were started for friends to meet and interact. With the amount of exposure this gives businesses, the waters can start to get a little muddy.

It’s a delicate balancing act between being held accountable for what you say, and not saying enough to keep people interested. Dual accounts is a great solution so the businesses can maintain family and professional contacts, and still allow an area to interact with past or future clients to earn that trust.

]]> By: Rachael Seda http://www.crttbuzzbin.com/doctors-on-facebook-hide-or-seek/comment-page-1/#comment-390681 Rachael Seda Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:28:08 +0000 http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/?p=8759#comment-390681 Great post! My mom is a nurse practitioner and I always remember neighbors asking my mom for medical advice. She would always help but she'd also recommend they go see a doctor if she wasn't sure (or just to cover herself). Now she works in mental health and she is very cautious about not having pictures of her family in her office for privacy and safety reasons. While she is on Facebook, I've helped her with her privacy settings too. I think the suggestion for a personal Facebook profile and then having a Facebook page is a good one. But I agree, it's always been to nice to have medical professionals in the family (and now my best friends is a physicians assistant). Luckily for the woman in the story she also had friends that were medical professionals. I think the moral is if you don't have friends or family members in the medical field then maybe you need to go make some (only kidding)! Posts like these do remind me how convenient it is to have access to people like my mom. It's easy to take for granted! Great post! My mom is a nurse practitioner and I always remember neighbors asking my mom for medical advice. She would always help but she’d also recommend they go see a doctor if she wasn’t sure (or just to cover herself). Now she works in mental health and she is very cautious about not having pictures of her family in her office for privacy and safety reasons. While she is on Facebook, I’ve helped her with her privacy settings too.

I think the suggestion for a personal Facebook profile and then having a Facebook page is a good one. But I agree, it’s always been to nice to have medical professionals in the family (and now my best friends is a physicians assistant). Luckily for the woman in the story she also had friends that were medical professionals. I think the moral is if you don’t have friends or family members in the medical field then maybe you need to go make some (only kidding)!

Posts like these do remind me how convenient it is to have access to people like my mom. It’s easy to take for granted!

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