Lemondrop

In this era of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn and countless other social networking sites, there is a thin line between your personal and professional life. While a simple status update, tweet, hastily written email, or online photo might seem innocuous to you, it could paint the wrong picture to thousands of online users, including your friends, your family or your co-workers. What is a savvy professional to do?

1. Double-check that your social networking sites are not "connected" to one another. Did you know that Facebook is now forging a "connect" service with Yahoo? Plus, users of LinkedIn and Twitter can now cross-reference each other's updates by checking a box on either network? Google's FriendConnect feature also allows users to connect their Twitter profiles to their Google addresses. This means that if you inadvertently sign up for any of these services, you could be sharing more than you care to with a wider audience on another network!

Click over to LearnVest.com and keep reading.