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Facebook Privacy Controls

Posted on Tue, Mar 18, 2008 @ 05:42 PM
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The new facebook privacy controls were exactly what I was looking for.  Currently I keep a seperate LinkedIn profile for my professional contacts, but there are certainly times when those two groups get blurred and I'm left to wonder if I should accept a facebook invitation from a future employer (which really happend).  This forced me to clean up my facebook profile (read: make it much more boring) and accept.  But now that will no longer be an issue.

The question is now - What does LinkedIn offer that facebook doesn't?  I've written before that I beleive a fundamental difference between Facebook and LinkedIn is that Facebook is the private me (for only my friends to see) and LinkedIn is the public me.  But if I can provide and update both personas from one content source - why use two different sites? Seems to me that LinkedIn is headed for a sad fate.  I guess the question in the long run is - Will people want to keep multiple profiles or can every site just leverage the content I post to Facebook?

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Hi Brad,
I totally agree - (now that I've discovered your blog, thanks to twitter, and) read your previous post about LinkedIn vs. Facebook and I thought Adam Nash's vision of the two social networking sites was too limited. Facebook is definitely starting to tread on LinkedIn's toes - I'm connected with everyone I work with on Facebook and have many professional connections. Friend lists definitely help with this situation. And there are plenty of professional networking apps on Facebook - it's not all about fun and games there. LinkedIn really needs to get their head in the game.
By the way, I also like the format of your posts... short, sweet, informative. Cool stuff.
Ellie

posted @ Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:33 PM by Ellie Mirman


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