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Great idea to sphinn it, Lee. This article definitely needs a lot more attention. I think it will clear up a lot of the "why" for people who don’t quite get Facebook yet.
Very useful article. Thanks for posting it.
Excellent post. Thanks.
Fantastic article, joined Facebook last week.
Great Work!!!! Keep posting such an informative articles. Mark Kevin
linkbistro, lahomesearch, i nixed the URLs in your comments. we don’t have signature here, and we have guidelines saying links in comments should provide value. folks can find out your sites via your profiles, thanks
Thanks for the article - I’m especially intrigued at this statement: "Recent research indicated that the fastest growth segment was 35+." I wonder what this means for LinkedIn?
Hey Amy, I think you hit it on the head. There’s a mass migration of LinkedIn users over to Facebook. As business networking apps get created in Facebook, there will be even more reason to make the change.
An interesting element about LinkedIn (and a gripe I’ve always had about the service) is the fact that LinkedIn requires you to pay to communicate with individuals outside your social circle (1st degree contacts). That’s no longer the case on Facebook. I was a Facebook user since early 2004 and have been using LinkedIn since late 2004/early 2005 and I have always found that this is a tremendous obstacle in the way of usability compared to the system that I adopted first. I understand that LinkedIn needs to get revenue somehow, but it needs to be a little more innovative to stay in the game.
Good Sphinn, Lee. The diverse comments on the post itself are worth the price of admission. I have to sheepishly admit I joined Facebook very recently and LinkedIn shortly before that. I still have to agree to some extent with some of the comments on the Sphinned and/or Sphun post that the old farts may be taking over what used to be considered a great social tool for the college crowd - much like marketing has taken over the Internet in general, from what used to be primarily a valuable educational and defense reference tool. Facebook, YouTube, etc., once powered by and for the people are just morphing into marketing tools like everything else. Maybe companies should just drive their own social media outlet, and maybe it should be called Fartbook :)