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Sensible social media use

Sensible social media use

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Sensible social media use

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- Social media is a powerful tool. It can help you grow your career, it can help you reconnect with long-lost friends. It has a tremendous impact on your focus and focus is the name of the game when it comes to effective time management. So we want to use social media carefully and find balance in our life. I'm going to share with you a few tips to get the most out of social media but not be distracted by it. Number one is understand the purpose for which you're there. Each social media site, LinkedIn, Facebook, has a different purpose. For instance, if you walk into the LinkedIn room, you're there to build your career. If you walk into the Facebook room, you're there to connect with friends. But often, people go into these rooms of social media sites and lose their way. They forget why they're there and it becomes distracting. So before you open up one of these sites, understand clearly what you're there to do, that…

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