Ed. note: I’ll update this with screenshots someday if I ever get a working internet connection. Until then, I hope the written instructions are clear enough.

With over 15 million users, you’ve probably been invited by at least a dozen folks to be their friend on Facebook. It’s an easy, fun way to keep in touch and spread news quickly…but it can also be an easy way to lose a good measure of privacy and mix your personal and professional lives a little more than you might like. Used correctly, Facebook is a powerful professional tool with lots of good PD uses regardless of your position. While some of this is geared to FSO-types, any professional would do well to take on a few of these. In this post, I’m going to focus on securing your profile to separate your friends from professional contacts, extensions for Foreign Service folks, professional Facebook etiquette, and social networking alternatives. Read on after the jump:

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