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"Social Networking While At Work: Networking Comes of Age"

Written by FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod: "Once upon a time, and actually not that long ago, online social networking truly was the province of high school and college students.  Those days are over, and whether the youth likes it or not, older generations now are rampant on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other social networking sites like LinkedIn; who manage online social networking while they carry on other daily tasks.

The demand for online social networking has become so ubiquitous that a recent reported outage of severe Internet controls in China was greeted with enthusiasm as usually blocked socially networking platforms briefly opened up.  While social networking does present a number of potential benefits, care must be taken that proper practices are followed, especially in the workplace.

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Source: FindLaw's The Practice Paper: For Solo & Small Firm Lawyers. 13 January 2010 Copyright © 2010 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe

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