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The way your engage with your friends, family, and contacts on Facebook could have a serious impact on your relationships online and off. Follow these guidelines to ensure your social media conduct is polite, meaningful, and reflects basic human decency. Always show respect, especially when discussing or posting about politics. You can share your political views—and even disagree with your friends, family, and network—as long as you do it with basic manners.
There’s nothing worse than a friend posting about their newest shopping purchase, vacation, or achievement and trying to seem modest about it. Always reveal big news to friends and family first. Engagements, pregnancies, new jobs, births, divorces, deaths, and any other major life event or news should be shared in person or over the phone before it’s shared publicly online. It’s both impersonal and insensitive to skip this step and may offend loved ones. Find and evaluate the original source before you share.
You may think that popular story is worth a share, but it could be insensitive or deliberately inaccurate. Never post photos of someone else’s children. Privacy is very important to some parents and families, which is why you should always ask for permission before posting. Turn off automatic posting from other social media platforms.