Thursday, March 03, 2011  Social media etiquette conundrum  From
time to time, I have noticed an interesting development in the
space where face-to-face relationships bump into online
relationships. In my extensive network are many people whom I
know both on- and off-line. In some cases it was online first
and then a personal encounter. In others it was the other way
around. Some of the relationships are purely personal, others
are largely professional. Some have become a blend of both.  I
have noticed that some of the people with whom I have both and
on- and off-line relationship are competent at conducting a
single relationship in two spaces. Others less so. In some
cases, there is a strange split. There is one relationship going
on online and another offline, and that it seems to be 'not
done' to break that wall. So you might have an exchange of
messages online in which something deep and tragic is shared, or
a disagreement is aired but the next time you see each other, no
reference will be made to he onli