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Do I Have To Join Facebook?

Facebook now has half a billion users world wide. Over half of us in the UK now use it to share photos and comments about our lives.

Eye On Wales reporter Selma Chalabi asks if she will have to join to keep up.

Last updated: 24 October 2010

In her quest to find out more about the Social Networking revolution, Selma talks to her friends Lisa Heledd Jones and John Rostron, who use Facebook and Twitter on a daily basis to organise their social lives.

Haydn Blackey and Simon Jones at the University of Glamorgan explain how Facebook has become a useful tool for those working in both education and marketing.

On the flip side, Selma finds out how easy it is to lose your job by publishing comments on your status update.

Solicitor Tracey Singlehurst-Ward of Hugh James in Cardiff talks about the increase of defamation cases as a result of Facebook.

For those who can't afford the cost of taking a defamation case to court, there's now a whole new breed of business - the reputation manager.

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