How to use social media without breaking FSA rules

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Maria Merricks reports on how advisers can use social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter without feeling the FSA's wrath.

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs and iPhone apps: these words were not even in our vocabulary a few years ago, but now they play a prominent part in our everyday lives as just a fraction of the ever-increasing new media phenomenon. Last month, Facebook hit the 500 million users mark, meaning if it was a country it would be the third largest in the world. With this in mind, such channels are continually flaunted as vital business marketing tools, and commentator after commentator argues that the networking prospects and chances to improve knowledge and skills are just too good an opp...

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