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Many UK companies have banned their employees from using Facebook, the most popular social networking site. This move has come owing to management fears for corporate reputation, reports The Telegraph.
Many CIOs have advised companies to be careful about social media and they are happy with the decision to ban Facebook for employees.
Clifford Burroughs believes that social media is an interactive tool for business relations, but sill they want to be cautious about the use of Facebook. They have created a separate group to be able to access these social networking sites.
He also said that companies should understand the business development use of social media but at the same time it is also important to protect the branding of their company.

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BranchOut has successfully raised $18 million for their business social networking within Facebook. BranchOut business networking came up with the unique idea of using Facebook to help people find suitable jobs. They add people within Facebook and offer jobs. BranchOut is an application within Facebook which enables people to create a professional profile and reach out to companies where they want to apply for jobs. The business networking company has more than 3 million job listings where people can apply.
Facebook is rapidly becoming the most popular business social networking site. LinkedIn has already been a leading business social networking site. Job offers and hiring is a small part of LinkedIn.
But Facebook seems to be the future professional and business social networking site. These days, LinkedIn and Facebook are becoming complimentary tools of business social networking.

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A recent survey has found that the popular social networking giant Facebook, had over 7.5 Million US users last year, who were under the age of 13. Out of these almost 5 million were 10 or even younger in age. This is in spite of Facebook's supposedly strict age restrictions that only allow those who are 13 or older to register on the site. The survey clearly shows that Facebook is most popular with pre-teens and teens with a total of 20 million American users who are under 18 years in age.
This survey indicates the blaring holes in the Facebook safety tools. The safety system works on the premise that when someone under the age of 13 tries to register on Facebook, they are prevented from doing so. Furthermore cookies try to stop the person from trying to register again. But there is a basic flaw in the system, it only relies on the children disclosing their real age while trying to sign up.
"This is a tricky issue, and there is no easy solution to make sure that underage children don't lie about their age while signing up," stated Andrew Noyes, Facebook's Manager of Public Policy Communications.