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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