After returning home from graduate school, I paid a visit to my friend’s dad. The reason? My resume. In addition to retooling my resume (which, at the time, was in horrible disrepair) he advised me to become active on a new social networking site called LinkedIn. Though I heeded his advice, it wasn’t until this past spring—prior to which time I had a shell of a LinkedIn account—that I became a truly active LinkedIn user. Since its creation, LinkedIn has become an accepted component of the contemporary professional networking paradigm, leading one to wondering about the utility of other social networking sites (such as Facebook or Twitter) in professional networking. Should Facebook and Twitter (and similar social networking sites) be used as professional networking platforms?
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