so i finally joined the fun at LinkedIn yesterday. other social networking sites i've tried have been interesting from a social dynamics point of view, but not overly useful. the group of people on LinkedIn seem to be more relevant to me from a professional point of view, so this one may turn out different. we'll see... if it does work out, i may shift more of my networking there in general as i'd love to have a place to "put" that stuff.
it would be nice to see some social networking tools in kde as well.</random thought>
anyways, the reason i'm blogging about it is because i was invited by a gnome project participant (dave neary is a cool guy =) and about half an hour later i got a link request from one of microsoft's top evangelists in canada (who i do know personally, so it wasn't random ;). but i just thought it funny that my first two links on the site were a gnome and a micrsoft guy, both with marketing posts. ha.
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perhaps if i read russian. learning a new language is something of a high bar for entrance to a social networking website ;)
I have a linkedIn account too. I believe it only works if everyone only introduce/link to people who you really can depend on. I've allready seen some invitation from people who just want to link to me because I work in the same company.
If everyone just links to everyone, it will fail and become useless. So I won't ask you to link to me :)
A friend explained to me very well what's wrong with professional networking sites like LinkedIn. On one hand, a person you know may trust you to only introduce people who are worthwhile. But if someone asks for an introduction, it is hard to refuse.
The bottom line is that often you don't want people in your network to know that you can link them - it's information that should be made available only at your discretion.
I also tried LinkedIn, but then learned how limited it possibilities are. You should give openBC.com a try. It offers a much finer granularity of privacy.
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