Currently Employed Jobseekers, Join BeKnown At Your Own Risk

Last week Monster.com rolled out the BeKnown app for Facebook, which says it can help you do your business networking on the otherwise friends-and-family oriented Facebook. It allows you to “friend” professionals who won’t get access to the rest of your Facebook account, which should in theory keep friends and work separate.

Today we’ve found, thanks to Job-Hunt.org, a serious flaw in the BeKnown app.

While the app appears to keep BeKnown friends from accessing your Facebook profile, it makes no attempt to conceal your new BeKnown profile from your current Facebook friends.

And since many people are already friends with colleagues or (god forbid) their bosses on “regular” Facebook, that means that they’ll be able to see your BeKnown activity—exactly the type of thing we thought this app was designed to prevent.

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