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Friday Poll: Social Networking Sites
February 8, 2008 | Posted by: Nicholas
I'm going to post a quick poll on a topic of interest each Friday (or maybe more often - I'm crazy like that). The topic today is social networking sites. To be clear, I do not mean social media sites like YouTube, del.icio.us, Digg, etc, whose main purpose is to find or share things on the web. The sites I included in this poll all have a primary focus of letting people find and communicate with each other. (I went back and forth on including Twitter. While it is a communication platform, it just didn't seem to fit in with the others.)
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Comments
February 08 2008 - 12:00 PM | by Christine
In general I find my network, primarily marketing folks here in DC working in technology businesses, are all in LinkedIn. I have only a handful of folks who are on Facebook (maybe 10). And fewer on Twitter (3).
By the way, I would consider Twitter a networking tool - people use it to follow and connect to one another. As well as get information. Hmmm. A little bit of both.
February 08 2008 - 12:23 PM | by Nicholas
Yeah, LinkedIn (mostly business contacts) and Facebook (mostly personal contacts) are my biggest networks, but as far as activity and updates, Facebook wins hands down. I’ll say it: It’s just more fun.
Regarding Twitter: The “other” option allows you to write-in any others I may have left out or you feel are related. No “Mickey Mouse” write-ins, please. ;-)