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Resume app for Facebook

Nick O'Neill at AllFacebook.com writes about a new Facebook app that puts a resume on your profile - and you can import directly from you LinkedIn account - which is nice. Except that I won't be using it.

Until Facebook gives me better control over who can see what in my profile, my professional life will stay on LinkedIn and my personal life on Facebook.

The Friend/Not Friend, limited/not-limited matrix is not granular enough to cover range of types of contacts I have that should each have their own limited profile settings: friends, co-workers, colleagues, contacts, clients, etc.

Nick seems to agree:

As my professional and social networks collide I need to be reserved in what is displayed on my existing profile. With the development of an application where I can select users that can view my personal profile (in this hypothetical application), I could transition 100% over to Facebook.

I'm not sure an app has the access to do this, though I haven't poked around the platform enough to know for sure. It should not be a difficult thing, though, for FB to create custom limited profiles as part of the core functionality. It would probably be a very smart move given the rapid growth of the 30+ demographic who a) tend to have more professional contacts than personal ones, and b) seem to have more concerns about privacy issues.

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