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Homework 3 emphasizes using professional networking sites such as LinkedIn. In this homework, you will:

A. Create and use a LinkedIn account to interact with friends

Note: For these activities within LinkedIn, you are welcome to include your professor and other students in the class. However, you do not have to. You are welcome to just use your known friends.

B. Perform the following specific activities:

1. If needed, create your LinkedIn account.

2. Login and complete and personalize your profile.

3. While completing your profile, be sure to include current and previous position, education, personal and additional information as appropriate.

4. Find connections to your friends

5. Research a couple of companies you might be interested in seeking employment within the future.

6. Configure and customize your privacy settings in LinkedIn.

C. Prepare a well-written paper no more than 3-5 pages in length.

In this paper you will cover the process of setting up the LinkedIn account, issues you encountered, privacy settings and the justification for selecting those setting, and how you envision using this account in the future. Discuss any personal or computer security issues you have with using LinkedIn.

Submission requirements:

Your name should be clearly listed on the first page along with the class/section, professor and due date. Your document should contain page numbers at the top of each page. Single or double space line formatting is acceptable. All references used for your report should be included in APA style format.