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"   A new report claims that adding your boss or parents as Facebook friends increases your stress levels. &amp;#039;Social landmines&amp;#039; like posting comments about smoking or drinking make us nervous, possibly because a terrifying 55% of parents follow their children on Facebook. Which leads us to ask: who on EARTH are all these people clicking, &amp;#039;accept friend request&amp;#039; when their mum&amp;#039;s face pops up in their notifications? With Facebook&amp;#039;s privacy settings being more difficult to decipher than the plot of Inception played out in semaphore, you have to be very careful of what you say online. So we&amp;#039;ve compiled this handy guide on How To Do Facebook \u2013 whether you&amp;#039;re friends with your boss, your mum, or just your 3D (AKA real-life) mates. HOW TO LIVE A STRESS-FREE LIFE 1. Unfriend anyone you&amp;#039;d rather didn&amp;#039;t see those snaps of you &amp;#039;pole-dancing&amp;#039; in Ibiza. Tell your family it&amp;#039;s part of the recertification process, thanks to an amendment to social media privacy laws. They&amp;#039;ll be both confused and impressed. And re-friend your boss onto a new account filled with photos of you looking industrious, telling them you deleted your personal profile in favour of a company-boosting work account. Shazam! 2. Avoid passive-aggressive updates. Posts like, &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t you HATE it when you think you know someone, but then find out they&amp;#039;ve been talking about you behind your back?&amp;#039; will see half your friends worrying that you mean them. In fact, make that all your friends. Let&amp;#039;s face it, gossip is the currency of the 21st century, kids. CELEB EXERCISE SECRETS 3. Unless you&amp;#039;re prepared to walk around parties with a photo of your baby stapled to your face, make sure your profile picture is actually a photo of you. Of COURSE she is the most beautiful baby who ever lived, evereverever. But your friends are friends with you, not a six-month-old (they are notoriously bad conversationalists). Unless you want people to think you have turned into a Stepford Mummy, avoid.  4. If you&amp;#039;re upset and want to shout about it, don&amp;#039;t be coy. Saying, &amp;#039;I can&amp;#039;t BELIEVE what happened today,&amp;#039; is a blatant attempt to get people to say stuff like, &amp;#039;Wot&amp;#039;s wrong babez???!!!!&amp;#039; Ditto posting photos of you looking fabulous with &amp;#039;innocent&amp;#039; captions (&amp;#039;Not sure whether to buy these hotpants. What d&amp;#039;ya think?&amp;#039;). An honest, &amp;#039;I BROKE MY ARM, WAHHH! / &amp;#039;LOOK HOW HOT I LOOK, WOO!&amp;#039; is the best policy. 5. Beware of clashes between Real Life You and Facebook You. We even sometimes diarise our little white lies (for example, a mythical party we&amp;#039;ve invented to avoid going out). That way, we remember to post &amp;#039;KATIE&amp;#039;S PARTY IS AMAZING, LOL!&amp;#039; when we&amp;#039;re actually scoffing ice-cream in our pyjamas. Please don&amp;#039;t tell anyone we do this. HAVE FABULOUS FOREPLAY 6. Don&amp;#039;t tag unflattering photos of your friends. If you have a) A photo of you looking fabulous and your friend looking like a tramp, and b) A photo of you both looking okay or where she looks hotter than you, it&amp;#039;s b all the way. It&amp;#039;s just not worth the fall-out. Trust us. 7. Heard a juicy bit of gossip about a celeb? Keep it to yourself unless it comes from a totally reliable source (like Cosmopolitan.co.uk, for example.) And if that source has used the word &amp;#039;allegedly&amp;#039;, make sure you do, too. People suing users for comments made on social networking sites actually happens. So check, check and check again. Then check again. Then AGAIN. Okay? 8. Try to use actual English. &amp;#039;Jus saw ma bros new tshirt, LOLOLOL!&amp;#039; is unlikely to impress future employers doing a Google search into thinking you&amp;#039;ll do a tip-top job on the annual report. SEE THE BEST CELEB TWIT PICS 9. Don&amp;#039;t announce important stuff on Facebook. Chances are your mum wants to hear that your boyfriend proposed from you, face-to-face. Not from your cousin after she saw your status update and proposal montage, and staged a family-wide spoiler. 10. Don&amp;#039;t over-analyse. That guy you fancy saying he likes ice-cream JUST EIGHT DAYS after you posted a photo of yourself eating an ice-cream? It doesn&amp;#039;t mean he&amp;#039;s secretly in love with you. No, honestly. It doesn&amp;#039;t. What are your Facebook rules? Tell us below! And follow Rosie on Twitter here. If you like. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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