Now that I have a better understanding of social media/networking and its role in my personal and professional life, I’m dealing with a bit of a juxtaposition in e-personalities. I’ve considered completely deleting my Facebook account to recreate a more professional, more grown up version… sans the pictures and videos and other college history that follows me there. But I haven’t – mostly because I use Facebook differently than I use other tools I’ve become active using lately. I keep in touch with college friends, high school friends, even middle school friends through Facebook. Most of the things I am talking about on, say, Twitter – are not going to be relevant to these people. And likewise, most of the wall posts, status updates and so on that populate my Facebook account, are neither going to be interesting nor relevant to my other social media contacts and friends. When these contacts want to connect on Facebook, I’ve found myself adding them to my Limited Profile list. I don’t want to lose the opportunity to make another connection, but I also don’t necessarily want new contacts and friends having full access to the less professional parts of my college life.

I guess I’m wondering if any other people are keeping Facebook (or other tool) separate from others. Are you experiencing multiple e-personalities? If not, have you had this problem in the past – but found a way to merge the two (apart from the Limited Profile list)?