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When choosing what to share this week, LinkedIn members opted for articles about Facebook’s changes over headlines about the changes (possibly) taking place with the speed of light. That’s should come as no surprise. Americans now send 16% of their online hours on Facebook. Einstein just can’t draw the same crowd as Zuckerberg.

Top 5 most-shared articles on LinkedIn (Sept. 23, 2011 – Sept. 30, 2011)g

This is a guest post on best practices around social networking from Nicole Williams. For similar posts check out our series on networking tips and tricks here. – Ed.

It’s no surprise considering the ever-increasing number of hours we’re logging, in way too close quarters and under immense performance pressure that our office mates are driving us up the cubicle wall.

Whether it be the empty coffee pot or the gum-smacking intern, the laundry list of office pet peeves is getting longer and longer with people not taking ownership for their actions having the distinction of hitting the number one spot in LinkedIn’s global survey of most irritating office pet peeves. More pet peeves and tips to overcome them after the infographic.

Ed. note: This is a continuation of our series of blog posts on Life at LinkedIn seen through the eyes of our colleagues. Today we hear from Jessica Ottavis who’s proven that LinkedIn really can give you a much-needed career boost.

I never imagined my receptionist temp work would be anything more than just that. Then a few weeks ago, it landed me my dream job. Since before I knew there was a field called “design”, I was living it. In middle school, I enjoyed creating magazine covers featuring my family. In high school, I redesigned a Monopoly board to feature all of my close friends.

Over the next couple of hours, we’ll be moderating a Town Hall with President Barack Obama focused on economic opportunity in our country and putting America back to work. The Town Hall hosted at the Computer History Museum will feature questions from a live audience, as well as questions culled from thousands contributed by LinkedIn members over the past week.

As part of our vision to create economic opportunity for all professionals, LinkedIn has also partnered with the Startup America Partnership to help founders of young businesses manage their professional identity, connect with the right talent and access advanced tools to help them grow their businesses. LinkedIn will be making a donation of up to 100,000 free subscriptions to Startup America Partnership entrepreneurs –  a value of $5 million.

The Startup America Partnership is an organization working to help young, high-growth companies succeed in order to accelerate job growth in America and was launched at the White House in response to President Obama’s call to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate entrepreneurship throughout the nation.