LinkedIn CEO On Why We Need More Than Facebook

Re:LinkedIn CEO On Why We Need More Than Facebook by olivolive on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @07:00PM (#1916246)

LinkedIn has done a good job of creating a social network for the professional aspect of your life. You can have co-workers who you enjoy working with, respect, like, but they still might not really be your friends.

But I think LinkedIn's success is partly because Facebook hasn't solved the social context issue. Work vs. friends is very important, but there are also differences in how we act with close friends vs acquaintances, friends vs. family, or even close friends that we met at different points in our lives. That would be a very difficult problem to solve cleanly, are there any social networks that are trying?

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Re:LinkedIn CEO On Why We Need More Than Facebook by rapind on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @08:49PM (#1916510)

I think this is a problem that will be solved by the users and not the technology. User's will adapt to curbing what they put out there (especially with everything being sold) and on the other side our opinions on what's unprofessional etc. will relax.

There's way fewer companies that would consider a keg stand as a sign of unemployability than there were 20 years ago. In fact it would probably be seen as social proof by many managers and someone they'd enjoy having around.

It'll sort itself out on the user side. Super complicated tools to manage your profile information will never reach mass adoption.

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Re:LinkedIn CEO On Why We Need More Than Facebook by aaronblohowiak on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @08:14PM (#1916430)

We don't need one network to rule them all. Similarly, we have different applications for document preparation, code manipulation and presentation creation though they are arguably text editors.

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