Dueling Your Facebook Friends for a New Job

Bloomberg Businessweek reports:

Research shows that the larger and more diverse your web of contacts, the more luck you'll have in the job market. LinkedIn, the sober networking site for professionals, has 90 million members. Facebook has nearly six times as many, but its users tend to post party photos and off-the-cuff quips that can turn the world's largest social network into a career killer. BranchOut, a career-minded website that launched in July, wants to mine the middle ground.