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Should you "friend" your boss on Facebook?
Posted by Diane Danielson at 9:52 AM

To friend or not to friend ... that is the question ... on Facebook. What happens when your boss wants to be your friend, or should you send a friend request to your boss? This is a question looked at in the Boston Globe today.

Ali Riaz has 126 friends on his facebook.com account. Ten of them are his employees.

Riaz doesn't mind befriending his staff members online - as long as they initiate the process. "I don't want to impose," said Riaz, chief executive officer of Attivio, a Newton software company. "Everyone has a different definition of what is personal and private. There is a line there, but it's a wiggly line. Whenever you are in a power position, you have to be careful."

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