Comments on: LinkedIn and Facebook: Collision course?

By: LinkedIn’s Intelligent Application Platform | DailyTechBits

LinkedIn’s Intelligent Application Platform | DailyTechBits — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:21:42 +0000

[...] will certainly be comparisons made to Facebook but LinkedIn’s decision to focus exclusively on business productivity applications should set [...]

By: mathewi

mathewi — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:05:01 +0000

That's interesting, Doc — my Facebook network continues to grow
daily, but my LinkedIn network hasn't budged in a while. Maybe that
says more about me than it does about either one :-)

By: DocThink

DocThink — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:00:12 +0000

Okay, it could be just be that I am old, but most of my for-real friends don't use Facebook. The social networkers among my peers are more likely to have a professional profile on LinkedIn.

Forty-somethings whose kids have been through xanga, then myspace, and now Facebook are not flocking to Facebook, but my LinkedIn network keeps growing. Maybe it's a DC thing, or maybe my circle is odd, but FB is pretty quiet among my peers. Just another anecdotal experience..

By: mathewi

mathewi — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:01:02 +0000

Thanks for the comment, mojodean -- it's true that at least LinkedIn
is thinking about how to adapt to fit what its market wants. It's
interesting to think about what the transition from Xanga to
Friendster to MySpace and Facebook has meant in terms of the evolution
of social networks, or whether in fact much has changed at all. And
will people want one network for business and one for social purposes,
or do they just want one portal for everything?

By: mathewi

mathewi — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:07:02 +0000

That's true, Tish — and I think one of the things we're seeing with
both Facebook and LinkedIn is people (and the sites themselves) trying
to figure out how to balance those two things, and how to allow people
to make more distinctions rather than lump everyone into either the
“friend” or “business contact” buckets.