12. Facebook at Work

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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.

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. Then we’ll look at how Facebook can affect a job search in positive ...

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