‘No, you can’t be friends with the weather presenter’ – the BBC’s policy on Facebook

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It’s a post from November 2008, but Journalism.co.uk just spotted this, via the BBC Internet Blog picks. The Shed blog reports that the BBC has an official policy on staff social networking.

When The Shed added Nazaneen Ghaffar as a friend on Facebook it received this e-mail from Andy Smith at the BBC:

“Unfortunately the BBC do not allow Nazaneen to accept friend requests. As an alternative a facebook fan group has been created.”

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