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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by Sharlin on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:05AM (#11894424)
Facebook contacts are my friends, at least for some value of "a friend". LinkedIn contacts are not.
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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by etangent on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:35PM (#11896739)
How does that distinction matter? Wasn't it LinkedIn's goal from the very beginning to make one interact with people who are not one's friends? (Otherwise how does one expand one's network if one merely interacts with the people one knows well?)
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