With social-networking services, personal and professional contacts know what you're doing, when you're doing it

November 10th, 2008 By Erin Whitee

When Stephanie Sherwood graduated from Texas Christian University, she went looking for a job with a time-tested approach: She tapped her network. The line of attack wasn't new. But the medium was.


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