Nick Turner has ventured into the virtual world of Facebook, the online social networking site that’s really taken off in the past few months.

But, being a Facebook novice, and despite being head of digital content development at the CN Group, he took a while to find his feet.

Poor Nick found himself with only a few friends at first – and is writing a blog on how he found his way around… and looked up some more old friends.

Facebook allows you to set up a page where you can post photos, discuss common interests through online groups, and generally keep in touch with your friends.

Nick said in the blog: “Imagine inviting a bunch of people to a party and realising in horror that your boss, your drunken friends and even your parents are all going to be in the same room.

“After my first 24 hours on Facebook, I can’t help feeling that this is the nightmare scenario that I have constructed.

“Key to all this is the number of “friends” you have in Facebook. Once somebody is signed up as your friend you can see their profile and receive updates about what their doing such as ‘12.20 Sue is eating strawberries’.

“It’s very addictive and in my first 24 hours I have managed to accumulate 14 friends including work colleagues, old friends and my sister.”

He’s also been poked (Facebook’s rather disconcerting term for sending a greeting) and two people have written on his wall.

Facebook has been a phenomenal success within the UK media with many journalists and broadcasters creating profiles and groups to network with contacts and fellow hacks.

So Nick has also joined a few journalism groups and hooked up with some people he deals with professionally in the industry.

But he admits: “That means that my embryonic list of friends is a strange mix of friends, family and journalism contacts so I’m not sure what tone I should be taking on my profile. Engage in too much banter and virtual food fights and I’ll look like some overgrown student to some of the people on my friends list.

“It’s all very confusing, but looking at some people’s Facebook pages I could guess that they wouldn’t want their boss to see the news feed which lists every time they’ve sent a message, thrown a virtual sheep at somebody or tinkered with their profile.

“It won’t be long before managers start snooping around on Facebook to find out what their staff are really up to.

“So jump on the bandwagon while it’s still rolling, but watch out for the backlash that’s just around the corner.”

Why not join the holdthefrontpage.co.uk Facebook group.