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Facebook's decision to add job postings to its popular social network jarred some of its users, who view it as a hub for personal networking, party pictures, and finding old high school friends.

The consensus opinion (but by no means scientific finding) gleaned from a dozen or so colleagues, industry sources, and friends was that they prefer to keep their business and personal lives separate when it comes to online networks.

These Facebook users say they keep their most-recent work affiliations updated on LinkedIn, the business-focused social network now owned by Microsoft ( msft ) , and most said they are careful to maintain that separation of their personal and work personas.

A few also cited the increasingly polarized political situation in the United States as one reason they do so. (If you rant about one candidate or another on Facebook, now you could end up alienating a prospective employer.)

Paula Hunter, executor director of NFC Forum , an industry group, called the Facebook Business push into job posting a mistake. Hunter thinks both Facebook ( fb ) and LinkedIn should stay in their respective lanes.

"I think it's a bad step. Facebook has already lost a lot of younger users and a lot of engineers. I have hated the increased social chatter on LinkedIn, which is strictly business for me," she notes.

And yet, a vocal slice of respondents said they will give Facebook a shot. Wendy White, chief marketing officer of Iovation , a Portland, Ore.-based tech company, says she will check it out.

"I don't think this is about Facebook exposing your posts or personal data," White says (via Facebook Messenger). "It's simply using their platform and insights about you to serve relevant ads. Say I check into a PHP conference, post about dev-ops, and I'm in the network of a software company. Boom! Facebook will serve me a targeted job."

(For reference, PHP is a software language, and dev-ops is an industry term for a modern way of building and deploying software.)

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Dee Dee Walsh, vice president of marketing for Mobilize.net , Bellevue, Wash., is an avid LinkedIn user, but says she will definitely try Facebook Jobs.

"It may be easier to reach developers on Facebook than on LinkedIn," she says, explaining that while LinkedIn is great for filling non-technical positions, it is not always effective in finding software developers and engineers.

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Paul Santinelli, a partner at venture capital firm North Bridge Venture Partners, is also open to the new jobs posting. "The number one priority of recruiting is prospect reach. Number two is relationships with prospects within that reach so Facebook seems like a logical place to recruit," Santinelli says, via email. "Now, what types of jobs? I wouldn't use it for executive recruiting, but for skilled workers? Sure."

When it comes to reach, as of December, Facebook claimed about 1.86 billion monthly active users. LinkedIn, on the other hand, has approximately 467 million registered members.

But just how many of those active Facebook users actually list their professional affiliation or use it for business purposes is unclear.

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For the past decade, Facebook has focused on connecting friends and family members; going forward, it wants to develop the social infrastructure for a connected, global community, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in the nearly 6,000-word letter today.

"Facebook stands for bringing us closer together and building a global community," Zuckerberg wrote. "When we began, this idea was not controversial. Every year, the world got more connected and this was seen as a positive trend.

"Yet now, across the world there are people left behind by globalization, and movements for withdrawing from global connection," Zuckerberg said. "There are questions about whether we can make a global community that works for everyone, and whether the path ahead is to connect more or reverse course."

Zuckerberg wants to foster a supportive, safe, informed, civically engaged, and inclusive community, he wrote. But with almost 2 billion Facebook users, that last bitinclusivitycan be tough.

"In the last year, the complexity of the issues we've seen has outstripped our existing processes for governing the community," Zuckerberg wrote, pointing to incidents like the removal of a famous Vietnam War photograph and the live police shooting video of Philando Castile (both of which were later returned to the site).

"This has been painful for me because I often agree with those criticizing us that we're making mistakes," Zuckerberg wrote, before pledging to allow Facebook "to permit more newsworthy and historical content, even if some is objectionable."

Still, "sitting here in California, we're not best positioned to identify the cultural norms around the world," he wrote. "Instead, we need a system where we can all contribute to setting the standards." Details are still being worked out, but Zuckerberg pointed to a "large-scale democratic process to determine standards with AI to help enforce them."

Artificial intelligence will also come into play on safety issues, Zuckerberg said, from blocking terrorist propaganda to identifying those who need mental health assistance and help from bullying.

"We are researching systems that can look at photos and videos to flag content our team should review," Zuckerberg wrote. "This is still very early in development, but we have started to have it look at some content, and it already generates about one-third of all reports to the team that reviews content for our community."

That community, meanwhile, is increasingly polarized. "Our goal must be to help people see a more complete picture, not just alternate perspectives," according to Zuckerberg, who argued that sensationalism, like articles with clickbait headlines, "moves people away from balanced nuanced opinions towards polarized extremes."

After taking heat for the proliferation of fake news during the 2016 campaign, Facebook has introduced some tools to reduce the amount of incorrect stories that float through news feeds. Going forward, "our approach will focus less on banning misinformation, and more on surfacing additional perspectives and information, including that fact checkers dispute an item's accuracy," Zuckerberg said today.

Armed with accurate information, Zuckerberg said he hopes people will then get involved, from registering to vote to following local elections.

"Today, most of us do not even know who our local representatives are, but many policies impacting our lives are local, and this is where our participation has the greatest influence. Research suggests reading local news is directly correlated with local civic engagement. This shows how building an informed community, supportive local communities, and a civically-engaged community are all related."

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Summary: "In most of the cases, the suspects create dummy profiles on social networking sites. Aurangabad: A city youth has been duped of Rs 30,000 by an unidentified person by offering a job in Dubai Navy after winning his confidence through a social networking site The city police's cybercrime branch said that this is the first instance where someone from Aurangabad was duped through a social networking site.Saurabh Manikrao Savarkar (28) of Chetna Nagar has stated in his complaint with the Jawahar Nagar police station that the suspect sent him a friend's request, which he readily accepted, a few days back. "Thite appealed to people to be cautious while sending or accepting friend request in the virtual world, where a large number of identities are fake. After the youth expressed his willingness, the suspect sent an account number and asked him to deposit Rs 30, 000 for visa and ticket for Dubai.Savarkar made an online transaction of the said amount in the account number shared by the suspect on February 9. "The suspect boasted about his contacts with high-profile people, impressed the youth and even exchanged phone numbers with him," police said.According to the police, during one of the calls, the suspect asked Savarkar if he was interested in joining Dubai Navy.

Aurangabad: A city youth has been duped of Rs 30,000 by an unidentified person by offering a job in Dubai Navy after winning his confidence through a social networking site The city police's cybercrime branch said that this is the first instance where someone from Aurangabad was duped through a social networking site.Saurabh Manikrao Savarkar (28) of Chetna Nagar has stated in his complaint with the Jawahar Nagar police station that the suspect sent him a friend's request, which he readily accepted, a few days back."The suspect boasted about his contacts with high-profile people, impressed the youth and even exchanged phone numbers with him," police said.According to the police, during one of the calls, the suspect asked Savarkar if he was interested in joining Dubai Navy. After the youth expressed his willingness, the suspect sent an account number and asked him to deposit Rs 30, 000 for visa and ticket for Dubai.Savarkar made an online transaction of the said amount in the account number shared by the suspect on February 9. However, he realised that he had been cheated as the suspect started avoiding him.Assistant inspector Gajanan Kalyankar of the cybercrime branch said that usually, such modus operandi is used by Nigerian racketeers and that this is the first such case in the city.He said that earlier there have been cases where the suspects first made calls or sent emails.

This time, a social networking site was used as a tool for preying on the target.Cybercrime branch authorities said that although a case has been registered in this regard, it will be an uphill task to identify the suspect's profile on the social networking sites is genuine or not.Assistant inspector Unmesh Thite said that in a majority of cases, it is found that the suspects boast a lot about themselves and their contacts. "In most of the cases, the suspects create dummy profiles on social networking sites."Thite appealed to people to be cautious while sending or accepting friend request in the virtual world, where a large number of identities are fake.. .

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AURANGABAD: A city youth has been duped of Rs 30,000 by an unidentified person by offering a job in Dubai Navy after winning his confidence through a social networking site.

The city police's cybercrime branch said that this is the first instance where someone from Aurangabad was duped through a social networking site.

Saurabh Manikrao Savarkar (28) of Chetna Nagar has stated in his complaint with the Jawahar Nagar police station that the suspect sent him a friend's request, which he readily accepted, a few days back.

"The suspect boasted about his contacts with high-profile people, impressed the youth and even exchanged phone numbers with him," police said.

According to the police, during one of the calls, the suspect asked Savarkar if he was interested in joining Dubai Navy. After the youth expressed his willingness, the suspect sent an account number and asked him to deposit Rs 30, 000 for visa and ticket for Dubai.

Savarkar made an online transaction of the said amount in the account number shared by the suspect on February 9. However, he realised that he had been cheated as the suspect started avoiding him.

Assistant inspector Gajanan Kalyankar of the cybercrime branch said that usually, such modus operandi is used by Nigerian racketeers and that this is the first such case in the city.

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Step aside, LinkedIn. Facebook wants to make the process of finding a job or filling an open position at your company a little easier.

The social network on Wednesday announced new tools to connect job seekers with companies looking for hires.This looks to be the official launch of a pilot program we got wind of back in November last year.

Businesses in the US and Canada can now post job openings on their pages, and job seekers can browse these opportunities via a new jobs bookmark as well as alongside other posts on business pages. Job openings may also start to appear in your news feed.

Facebook is making it super easy to apply for jobs you see on the service. No more filling out page after page of information about yourself and your work history: When you spot a job opening that suits you, just click the Apply Now button and a form will open that's pre-populated with information from your Facebook profile. You can review and edit your information before submitting it.

As for the businesses posting the job listings, not only do they open up the potential for many more people to see the job due to the size of Facebook's user base, they can also contact potential applicants directly using Messenger.

Facebook said it will be rolling out these new resources over the next few weeks.

Before applying to jobs on the social network, just be sure to check out the public version of your Facebook profile and remove any questionable photos or posts that might turn off potential employers.

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