13. Facebook at Work

Finding a healthy relationship between work and one’s personal life can be a tricky business, to put it mildly. So it’s not surprising that the interface between Facebook and the nine-to-five world can be puzzling, too. Facebook is a fun, freewheeling, social kind of space, and work is, well—work.

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So this chapter is about how to negotiate the boundaries between those two worlds. We’ll start by tackling the ever-popular question of whether you should mix your social network with your work life, and whether it’s even possible to keep them separate. We’ll examine how Facebook can affect a job search in positive ways as well ...

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