By now, we all know that social media is a tool that can be used to help you promote your home business. But there are some definite dos and don’ts when it comes to social networking. Allison Boyer at Bizza offers four social networking mistakes to avoid:

1. Combining your personal profile with your professional profile.

2. Forgetting that you have a profile, and failing to keep it updated.

3. Becoming infamous. Yes, you want to be well-known. But not for being a jerk.

4. Sending visitors to your social networking page to an empty site.

Now, I have to admit that I am a major offender with #1. My Facebook profile is a combination of my professional and personal life. Oddly, I don’t feel too badly about that. Sometimes I feel bad for my actual friends and relatives, but since you can just ignore annoying things on Facebook, I don’t feel that bad.

Are you making any of these social networking mistakes with your home business?