Messing Up Online

It happened to a friend of mine recently.

She posted a picture via Twitter.

But it was not the picture she wanted to share with the world.

(No, it wasn’t one of those kind of pictures.)

It was her combination to her new lock.

She didn’t even realize it and probably never would have known if I hadn’t asked her to tweet a picture of her Social Security card too.

Even then it took her a couple of hours before she saw the mistake.

I know, I know, mistakes can happen.  I manage the Social Media for 5 brands and use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, Instagram, blogs, and YouTube, multiple times a day along with my own accounts, so I better make sure each and every post and update is correct.

I’ve made a couple of mistakes, but they are usually corrected right away and we move forward.

But here’s a trick I use to keep the personal from the business.

I use different browsers for different accounts. And different tools too.  Hootsuite manages all my business twitter accounts.   Tweetdeck is for my personal Twitter accounts.  Currently I only use Instagram for business from my phone.  I have to really be carefully when using Facebook or Google+ because those accounts are all interlinked.

How about you?

How do you keep it all straight?