An unnamed number of years ago when I ventured into my first social media outlet (the uber-trendy Xanga world that all the cool kids were into), it never would have dawned on me to include business associates and coworkers in my list of “friends.” I was fairly certain that these professionals weren’t all that likely to be interested in my ever-changing sparkly kitten-themed pages with 80’s hair band music, nor I theirs. And heart-wrenching public updates about how a certain dysfunctional family member had inflicted pain yet again just wasn’t all that enjoyable of a read when coming from the dorky junior staff accountant three cubicles over.

My, how things have changed. Mr. Dorky Accountant may still be a bespectacled calculus nerd. But wising up, and cleaning up his unwise and quite public dysfunctional family posts, now he’s the Accounting Manager who needs my expertise to find qualified candidates for the openings in his department. And my public profile has matured as well.

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