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- geekchic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+25"professional contact requests through Facebook"
Surely that is an oxymoron? - billpena, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I use LinkedIn, and it's been a huge boon for me. I'm currently interviewing for two different positions, and they both came from LinkedIn contacts. Well worth the effort.
- toast24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yes, people still use it, quite a bit in fact.
- bmw@, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4"I talked to LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman on Friday at the Supernova 2007 conference about Facebookâs rapid growth and potential incursion into his territory. He told me that over next 9 months LinkedIn would deliver APIs for developers, ostensibly to make it more of platform like Facebook, and create a way for users who spend more time socially in Facebook to get LlinkedIn notifications."
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5482 - jasg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4how does it work ?
what does it mean "opening their platform to developers" ? can any body explain please. - justabum, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3LinkedIn is going the way of Dice, Monster etc. These sites were originally set up to "cut out the middleman" with regard to job searching. The reality is that 98% of job ads on job sites are posted by recruiters. Ditto for LinkedIn; the only "business relationships" I seem to get are with job recruiters.
- Otto, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2>>>"to all the people bitching about users of facebook or myspace: if you despise these sites so much, why do you use them?"
I don't use them. However, I am often extremely annoyed when I see them crop up in regular day to day online life. Especially myspace, those sites are made for and by mentally retarded people. Early 90's webpages were better.
>>>"secondly, these social networking apps are simply tools."
If I need to drive a nail, I do not bang on it with a screwdriver.
Similarly, if I'm looking for a serious social networking tool for making professional contacts, I do not look to facebook or myspace. - radix33, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@justabum
"LinkedIn is going the way of Dice, Monster etc. These sites were originally set up to "cut out the middleman" with regard to job searching. The reality is that 98% of job ads on job sites are posted by recruiters. Ditto for LinkedIn; the only "business relationships" I seem to get are with job recruiters."
You realize that most companies have in-house recruiters, right? If they don't, they will hire outside recruiters to recruit for them. It's not necessarily a bad thing for recruiters to be the only one contacting you.
PS: I'm not a recruiter. - smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2to all the people bitching about users of facebook or myspace:
if you despise these sites so much, why do you use them?
secondly, these social networking apps are simply tools. ultimately it is you who decides the quality of the social networks you build. friend requests are made or approved by you. you pick and choose who your friends are in real life, so why not take the same responsibility and use the same discretions online?
i often see people with hundreds of friends listed on these social networks and i question how well they know all of these people. it's not a game of who can be the most popular--although sadly to some people it is exactly that i guess. if you are discerning about who to add to your social network, then these sites can be very useful. if not, then you'll constantly be spammed by retards.
i use both facebook and myspace, but i have only about 24 friends though i've been using it for about 2-3 years. i have far more friends on facebook because of its college-oriented nature, but i still only add people i know or am interested in getting to know (not because they look cute or just because they sent me a request). and yes, i _have_ gotten job offers on facebook. i'm a freelance graphic designer and web developer, and i receive projects and work from contacts on facebook occasionally. i'm in a few facebook groups of student clubs i'm in (like a local music promotion club for instance), so i get requests from members who know me. it's just another communication medium.
i also received a job offer my sophomore year from another student at my school who was starting his own media production company--facebook's localized school-oriented nature makes it the perfect tool for recruiting local talent and professionals on campus. the contacts i've met through facebook have all been pretty cool and i've made a few thousand dollars in the past 4 years just through the work i received through these contacts although it has all been freelance.
social networking sites are what you make of them, so there's no point in denigrating users of a particular site. when a social networking site has _millions_ of users, it's inevitably going to have people you don't get along with. but it will also have people that are smart, talented, and professional. in fact, partly due to being able to view someone's profile first on facebook, it's been easier on average to work with contacts made through facebook than clients referred to me by friends or otherwise. - locnguyen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Yes I do. I don't use it for fun if that's what you want it to be fore.
- realbeandip, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"what does it mean "opening their platform to developers" ? can any body explain please"
Yes, I can. What they do is open their community, making it a viral application and achieve exponential growth out of the box with paradigm shifting applications. Users will flock to the site and it will become the defacto standard in the b2b/c2b/d2b market.
Sheesh, am I the only one who learned anything during the dot-com boom? - championchap, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2The digg system works something like as follows.
A story is submitted, if a large enough number of people in a given ammount of time find this story interesting it is promoted to the front page where it is giiven enormous exposure.
If the story is marked as lame, innacurate or otherwise buried by a large enough number of people the story is demoted and removed from the frontpage.
Oh, and just so you know, questions end in a question mark. - pixelmixer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2apparently someone gives a *****... since it is on the front page.
- spider418, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2JSchwage just left, FOR GOD's SAKE someone flip the off switch !!!
I can't remember the last time I got a contract through Facebook. Come to think of it I can't remember the first... - geekchic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@smackhero - Can I introduce you to the concept of the "paragraph" ?
- lateralus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yes, many people do. How's that unemployment thing working out?
- nonfamous, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Maybe it's regional, but here in the Northwest USA, LinkedIn is huge. It's the main way people headhunt these days.
- beatbox32, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm thinking the original poster was referring to the "headhunter" types, not necessarily employed full-time/part-time within the hiring company. From my experience, it's those that are strictly in the recruiting business that waste your time with openings that don't apply, mine companies on your resume for leads, etc. In other words, those recruiters suck balls.
- siestaguy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1agreed
- Otto, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Pfft... I wouldn't consider doing business with somebody trying to contact me using Facebook. You might as well just use MySpace for all the relevance it has. Idiots jabbering back and forth at each other, accomplishing nothing, getting nowhere. Much like Digg, actually. ;-)
LinkedIn, on the other hand, still gets a lot of traffic through it, without all the extraneous crap. It's more for serious professional social linking than Facebook is or ever will be. - creardon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Excellent comments Nick. The ability to change what people see of your online personality is huge. Avatars (persona's), or what ever you'd like to call them, will be the wave of the social-networking future - hence Facebook will kill Linkedin if it doesn't institute the social side of networking immediately, but with restraint. No matter what people say - networking is social, and you do it so that you stay involved in peoples lives so that they remember you. You do it so that you are at the forefront of their minds the next time they have an opportunity to recommend you. You do it so that you can understand your colleagues better as people so that you can communicate with them more effectively. Knowing when their kids birthday's are, their anniversaries, their favorite holiday spots, the books they read - all of these things help you maintain a fully rounded image of people in your minds eye. Lets face if, we all need solid, trust worthy connections - you can't get those through a resume. The underlying need for social-networking is our psychological need to be part of a group, and to be understood.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4This isn't even a story. Try coming back and submitting when there is actually news about this, not just "considering".
- wabbit123, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Hmmm... Let me think...Maybe it made the frontpage because someone actually liked it??
- bmw@, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Maybe once; not now. Facebook is open to all, not just pimply-faced schoolkids, so it's starting a new arc in its development.
- KingAdrock, on 10/11/2007, -4/+29 months? too little too late - I havn't touched that site in 6 months+
- JSchwage, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Does anybody seriously still used LinkedIn? I can't remember the last time I visited that site.
- Sharky35, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2Wow a story about ... who gives a *****.
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