The Members’ Assistance Program (MAP) is sponsored by CDSPI and provides confidential short-term counselling support, professional guidance, resources and referrals for dentists, dental office staff and immediate family members. MAP services are complimentary and accessible 24/7/365. Contact MAP at 1.844.578.4040 or visit www.cdspi.com/membersassistance-program MAP is operated by TELUS Health (formerly LifeWorks), the largest Canadian-based Employee and Family Assistance provider in the country. Available services vary by region. Use of MAP services is completely confidential within the limits of the law. • Healthy Workplace Series • The following article is adapted and reprinted with permission from worklifehealth.com Social Media and Your Team: To Friend or Not To Friend? Different platforms, different rules Different social media technologies may have different “feelings” for some people, and fit in differently to their lives. While your X account (Twitter) may be pretty simple and impersonal, your Instagram account might feel more like a diary. It is perfectly acceptable to grant your coworkers access to one while keeping the other more personal. Sometimes it’s a generational question Millennials grew up with social media in one way or another, and as such have a different relationship to it than Baby Boomers or Gen Xers. Millennials are often at home in digital media and feel less of a private/public divide, allowing them to feel more comfortable sharing their online personas with their realTo say that social media is now part of everyday life would be an understatement. What was once a leisurely side activity has become a veritable necessity: 60% of North Americans have at least one social media account, and are more connected with people than ever before. As social media increasingly plays a role in our lives, many questions arise about boundaries. One of the trickiest, most delicate and indeed the most important of these social media conundrums is: should and/or how to include colleagues in our social media lives. Should you accept your coworker’s friend request? Should you let the people you work beside follow you on X (Twitter) or Instagram? There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to answering these questions, but they are important questions that demand some careful thought. Here are some things to consider before a few easy clicks have you sharing more than you would like with the people you work with. 33 Issue 1 | 2025 | Supporting Your Practice
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