A number of my colleagues have public social media accounts, like on IG, TikTok, etc. I don’t know how I feel about this, especially when we go out for happy hour, we all end up in public posts.
What do you guys think of having public Instagram accounts while being in consulting?

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Who cares

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Why is consulting different than being at a law firm, or in PE? We’re not in the CIA.

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Not trying to be funny, but often we invite our clients out drinking with us. I have some level of trust in my co-workers to not post the video from 1am of us doing karaoke, but a team dinner or drinks? I do t get to worried about that.

I think it’s okay to be public, but it’s risky in terms of content and what’s out there.. personally I have private accounts

I also would not want someone posting me at HH on a public account

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Certainly not my style, but I think it’s totally fine if you’re leaving work out of it most of the time. A lot of places do happy hour, so I don’t think anything is alarming there, unless you’re posting a video of someone from work storming behind the bar and drinking from the taps or something like that

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Wouldn’t that be epic..

Lol why are you trying to police what others do or post or how they use social media? No one here is a celebrity, no one is in the CIA or some secret government agency, it doesn’t matter if we get put in a social media post by someone else or not (chances are you’re already in someone else’s accidentally!)
If anything, if you personally are acting appropriately at work happy hours, there’s 0 consequence for you.

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No one cares. I've literally gotten destroyed with clients before. It's called bonding. Just read the room

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Pretty dumb to have public accounts in any capacity

Consulting isn’t special, insert any job and if people want to have public accounts, they can. I don’t but has nothing to do with what career I’m in, just a more private person and don’t post much at all.

I do not have any active account, is too dangerous, for toxicity and reputation.
Also when going out with peopoe I am the one who sacrifices and make the picture of the group.
Funny thing is when i met a new girl, they are suspicious because i dont have any social network.

As long as I’m not blacked all is good

Why do you think it’s a problem to have a social media account?
If you don’t want to be in any of the pictures, can you walk away for couple mins?

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