- Social media strategist
Companies and consultants who are looking for an audience to market their services and products to need people with your expertise. As a social media strategist, you'd create campaigns using social media channels to help your clients achieve their business objectives.
Suggested degree: Marketing MBA
- Nonprofit management
A big part of nonprofit work is fundraising, event planning, and outreach. What better way to find people to support your cause than through Facebook?
Suggested degree: Nonprofit Management MBA
- Event planning and promotion
You already know how to create and manage events through Facebook. Combine these skills with your offline social skills for a career in event planning and promotion.
Suggested degree: Associate in Event Planning
- Game developer
Just think, you could create the next game that over 200 million Facebook gamers can't stop playing--even while at work.
Suggested degree: BS in Video Game Design and Development
- Political campaign worker
Where there are people, there are politics. Even after the campaign season is over, successful politicians need savvy people to manage their social media accounts.
Suggested degree: BS in Political Science
- Jobs with Facebook
Facebook employs user experience analysts, human resource professional (who use Facebook to recruit!), and lots of other professionals that have a passion for Facebook.
Suggested degrees: Business or Social Sciences
Have the Facebook skills but lack the know-how? If you can set aside some non-Facebook time, online education makes it easier for savvy Internet users like you to get a degree online in business, corporate communications, web application and game development, and many other subjects.
Why Facebook addiction is a no-go in the workplace
Though you probably don't spend all of your workday in the stairwell or the bathroom, the reason why a lot of employers are establishing policies that ban sites like Facebook is the loss of productivity. One often-cited study published in July 2009 by Nucleus Research involved a small sample of 237 employees and the resulting loss of productivity was a meager 1.47 percent. Since then, other studies, including one from the University of Melbourne, concluded that "workplace Internet leisure browsing" can actually improve workers' concentration.
However, a new career may still be in your best interests, considering what Brent Coker from the University of Melbourne told PCWorld.com about people like you: "Those who behave with Internet addiction tendencies will have a lower productivity than those without." Best to find a different course and embrace a career that wants you--and your high-achieving Facebook profile--just the way you are.
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