... and it's not between vampires and werewolves.
Well, not the war to which I'm referrring.
It's the social networks versus business networks battle and it might get nasty.
The BBC news website posted a link Skrentablog which has an article about how people are switching to Facebook from LinkedIn.
A couple of weeks ago I received an invitation to join Facebook from an old friend. As in, not a young friend. As he is older than me I was surprised that he was on a social network which seemed dedicated to teens and young adults.
Anyway, if it's free it's for me so I joined. I then found other friends on it too.
It's rather nice. There's an immediacy to it; thanks to its Web 2.0 functionality you can see what your friends are up to. And that gives it a currency which you don't get from business networks like LinkedIn and Xing. Those have a file and forget feel to the contacts you amass. At least compared to Facebook.
Anyway, now - in the last month - it seems that Facebook is being taken more seriously. People are using it to maintain potential business contacts. At least that's what Skrentablog writes. But I can see it happening.
Nevertheless I'll keep using LinkedIn and Xing as well as Facebook.
By the way the comments are as good as the article itself.
A diary based on my latest attempts to get a job; this time in Munich. I'm an engineering graduate (and chartered engineer) with more than 10 years' experience in IT. Over five of these years have been spent in team leading and project management roles both in the UK and abroad.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
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