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Social-networking sites are all but putting contact numbers and your information out of business. Instead of trading a 3.5 x 2-inch piece of paper, people are trading names and tracking one another down on sites such as Friendster and Facebook.
Here some tips how you manage your facebook
1. Keep it strictly personal - “Have a consistent message,” meaning if you’re marketing yourself as a top computer engineer, make sure your Facebook profile reflects that image with purpose that might HR find you and hire you. But Jeyson tells users, “Keep the social aspect separate. I’ve had clients who’ve been way too attached to their Facebook pages and all the personal content on there, but I ask them, ‘What’s your priority? Finding a job or revealing all your identity?’
2. Mind your status. Your status can be used for more than goofy one-liners. For instance, shares, “You can use your status to let people know about additional projects you’re working on, which sends a message that you’re more than just what you do at work every day.” Also, if you friend your coworkers on Facebook, make sure you don’t accidentally throw yourself under the bus by revealing you weren’t really sick when you called in sick to work, as one Facebook user learned (see related incident on the previous article in this blog).
3. Choose your friends and your groups carefully. Whom you friend and the groups you join are a reflection of who you are. Think through the requests you accept and the company you keep on Facebook as potential employers may take those things into account.
4. Mind your identity. Another plus of keeping your privacy settings high or, ideally, keeping your profile strictly professional, is that you’re less likely to divulge personal information that could leave you at risk of identity theft. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s personal email account was famously hacked by someone who successfully guessed the answers to her security questions. Avoid divulging your pets’ names, your mom’s maiden name, and other details that could leave you vulnerable to fraud by including only professional details on any social-networking site.
Facebook can be a great networking tool to let people know about you, and to find people you miss and it’s a great way to learn about people and groups. Just be sure to use these sites in a savvy manner to your benefit.”
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