After trying Facebook for about 6 weeks, I've decided to drop out of it. I'm not sure what to do with it and it just absorbs my time. Unlike LinkedIn, whose purpose as a professional connection mechanism is immediately obvious, FaceBook just seems to be a set of random mini-apps glued together. With LinkedIn I can find people in my industry, from my college and from my company. I can make connections. With Facebook, I've got people writing odd things on my wall, blasting out universal messages and just generally filling my email with things I don't read for weeks.
I must be missing something. In any case, my Facebook experiment is over and I'm deleting my profiles and eliminating the link on my sidebar. Thanks to all of you who added me as a friend and sent me things. I'm sorry I didn't have time for this.
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Facebook is out! MateCube is the new social networking hit!
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In all honesty, I just use it to play scrabble. :)
I discovered the very same thing.
I've been using facebook for about 6 weeks. I thought it was kind of cool at first becuase I was able to connect with a few people I hadn't talked to in years. And I was using it a lot becuase I was able to play some chess. There is a lot of childish crap on there too. But I have to confess the only reason I logon to facebook is the games. LinkedIn is a lot more career minded SNS (social net site)
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