I’ve been avoiding the Facebook and MySpace crowd since its inception – I didn’t want to be the thirty-something, dirty old man on the barstool of a teenie/twenty-sonething nightclub. However, about the time of the relaunch of AustralianBlogs (or thereabouts) Simone sent me a LinkedIn invitation. I must have signed up a little while ago as it’s fallen by the wayside like my hotmail account. So I gave i a whirl – accepted Simone’s kind invitation to link up and dusted off the resume. This time around, I pasted a link on this blog (as you can see on the top right-hand corner).
It’s terribly uncool to the digerati, I’m sure. LinkedIn’s up there with Amazon, eBay and Yahoo as the giants of the first go-around of the internet boom.
So I thought…PERFECT.
Positives
- good for finding long lost friends
- acts as an online business card or whitepages listing
- might help personal ‘trustrank’
- nice to see the track record
Negatives
- a bit narcissistic – and you do feel like a tosser
- privacy – you can’t control who sees your profile and what they do with it
- can’t hide the bad bits – think of it as web cellulite
Overall, I’ve added 30-odd friends (real friends) and a couple of acquaintances from the blog world. Not bad. The greatest tangible benefit has really been hooking up with long-lost friends but I guess it’s been some help with any interested surfers looking to get involved with AustralianBlogs.
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Lol, I don’t remember doing that, and don’t actually use it myself… but then, I’m a twenty-something who is on myspace and facebook
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If you’re looking to find long lost friends, I would recommend facebook for that (one of the few things it’s good for… the other is playing scrabble
Anyway, look forward to chatting at Podcamp, and thanks for all the link love recently!