Becoming a Business owner has so much excitement and you want to share with everyone including your friends and families. As time goes on you find that your having to be cautious of what you can and can NOT post. Especially if you are providing services to other business that may trail back to your personal page. Or maybe a social influencer. The question is how much personal posting is too much?

Here is my dilemma. I own obviously JD Virtual Solutions, and I provide Virtual Assisting to several business. One of which is a Marketing Firm. Another a Antique Store in a Local town. And a couple others spread across the U.S. My name is associate with their Facebook posts or other social media pages because I am posting, sharing, and more. I don’t have the liberty to post about anything regarding what is going on in the world simply because it could effect my clients, and come back to me loosing clients. I have to maintain a professional looking page.

There is no rule that says you have to accept friend requests from co-workers, people you met while networking, and certainly not customers.

A few things to consider, Don’t use a shared page with a spouse. Share only photos your comfortable with strangers seeing. The rule of thumb is don’t share anything you wouldn’t share with your Grandmother. Kind of like “Think before you speak” except “Think before you post”. Don’t post anything that doesn’t boost your self presents. Don’t ask for advise on anything personal in your life. For example; Don’t ask for advise on how to get your kid to stop throwing a fit. You only open the door for criticism from those pesky keyboard warriors. try to keep your memes to uplifting quotes. Posting mems that would suggest your having relationship issues or family issues will only look poorly on your presents. And you don’t want to be the center of the gossip chain.

NOW there are ways you can post yourself freely without it getting intertwined with the general public.

On your Personal profile you can go to your settings and allow followers. Anyone you choose not to accept as a friend will automatically become a public follower and will only see posts that you post as public posts. They will not see posts you designate as friends only. The down side is remembering to make that privacy decision on each and every post.

If you’re like me and have the same people on your pages and your personal profile. It would take hours to sort through them all. One of the easiest options I have found is you can create a family group. Creating this group will allow you to post freely, anything you want. You can invite your friends and family into the group and they are the only ones to see your posts that you post in this group. Just make sure you set that group to Private. I have friends who share all their family photos there. These posts will only show up on your approved friends and families news feeds.

Personally I like the idea of creating a group page for certain friends and family. It allows me to post and share with those I approve only and I can continue to post on my personal page but more appropriate types of content that won’t have affect on my clients or myself.