Maintaining separate Facebook accounts or pages for work and personal updates can become a hassle, and some journalists choose to use a single account for their presence on the social network, whether that's for keeping in touch with friends and family, or for sharing links to their work and discussing their specialisms.
If you're considering using just one Facebook account, check out this blog post from Sarah Marshall, audience development editor EMEA at The Wall Street Journal, where she explains how you can choose who sees your updates.
In the post, she explains how to use lists to control the privacy settings for individual updates, if you're worried your family won't be interested in all your stories or if you don't want your readers to see pictures from your latest family gathering.
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