The more 30 - and 40-somethings in to Facebook, start to Tweet, add your credentials to LinkedIn and post pictures of your family vacation to Flickr, becomes difficult to separate their work and personal character. And as more employers begin to use these social networking sites to evaluate new hires - assuming people will start to have new hires at some point in the future Since this miserable economy turns around - the situation will only get worse.

What started me thinking about it is that I'm giving a speech next week to show people how to make the most of LinkedIn, a leading social sites is used by a variety of professionals in search of work and polish your resume, qualifications and recommendations from previous employers. Granted this is not a new theme - people have had problems with what they say online for years. Heather Armstrong, who created the Web site dooce.com the verb that is used when someone is shot on his blog, was fired for his blog, for many years (his new book is a real treat and a collection of some of his writings which is a real joy to read).

Dooce.com now generates thousands of dollars per month in advertising revenue. This is taking lemons and turning them into not just lemonade, but Lemon absolute, or maybe even Absolute Gold.

So here are some recommendations for those of you who are new to this Internet thing whole, to pass along his Clueful fewer friends and relatives.

First, keep sex, politics, religion and family of your online life as it you can. If you feel that you have to tell the world about these things, think like a potential future employer might react to seeing all this in your profile. No one really wants know that you are a member of the Republican Party of the Virgin Islands "(as one of my Facebookers put it), what that means. Another friend is committed in a relationship with your dog, again, not something I really want to know the details. And those married people, indicating that they like to have relations with a third very disgusting to me. Leave some white space in your profile in these areas. Too much information!

Second, tell the truth. If you is single and looking for love, then by all means online and do your thing and misrepresenting yourself however you see fit or do you think will attract the potential partners. But when it comes to talking about his professional achievements, not exaggerate, invent new positions, degrees, or any other credentials that you not. Not worth it, and eventually he will come back to hurt you or prevent you from getting that plum job that we covet. There is also no need to document every waking moment and sober since college is: only the most recent headlines for now. And when it comes to those non-sober moments, let information the floor of the court. Nobody really wants to see their knowledge using beer pipes.

Third, if you are one of the most unhappy people who are currently between jobs, to LinkedIn and other sites part of a daily ritual. If you spend a few minutes or hours is not so important, only so you spend time regularly updating your profile and seek to expand its network.

Fourth, decide on your "friending policy ' will be and be consistent, at least within each social site that you frequent. For example, I am more strict with people who want to network with me on LinkedIn, and only accept connections with people I actually met face to face, or that have been long corresponding e-mail time. I also routinely refuse connections headhunters and HR people, because I'm not interested in improving their business with my connection. But on Facebook, I have a more liberal friending, just because.

Finally, spend some time thinking about how you acquired your existing professional friends: you like to meet and greet at conferences industry? You are more than a small group or large group socializing? Do you prefer one-on-one situations? Have you co-author and not enjoy / hate experience? You tend to keep co-workers around for many years past that the time spent at work? Were you popular in high school or peak in the second year? You still stay in touch with your frat brothers or sorority?

Remember that most of us are still quite new in the MyBook and Friendspace and even Oprah made his first Piu in ALL CAPS. Do try and test different strategies, and feel free to share what works for you if it is appropriate. Just do not send me links to these pix toga party.

Charlene Li - The Future of Social Networks: SXSWi 2009

What do you see the future of facebook?

I want to know your opinion, what do you think is the future of facebook? Also, do you think will always be only a social network or somthing will become bigger and become a search engine or a web portal or something?

your myspace as Xanga and will be around along time, but lost a lot of people, eventually there'll be another site that fit around the new generation better and will start using it ....

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