Linked-In used to have a unique personality, and the connections were based on actually knowing the other person. I don't feel that is true any longer; LI has become a slightly more focused version of Facebook. I get as much junk mail from one as from the other; I get asked to 'join my network' or 'friend' users by just as many people at each venue, just as often by people I don't know.
I've rejected free trial upgrades on LI several times, and I may be missing out on some of its capabability. I'm not interested in paying for subscriptions to just about anything, and LI would probably not be my top choice if I were to make an exception.
LI does seem a bit better about apps. FB has a huge number of apps that want you to send on your entire contact list to them so they can bother your friends. I hate that.
Social sites are a necessary evil for me. I really stil don't like them.
Of course, LI won't sit around idly, either, and no doubt is reworking and extending its capabilities
@Alison, FB's advantage is huge database which it has collected from users which means search results are more relevant. It would be interesting to see what steps LI will take inorder to compete against FB's graph search.
@Anand, I haven't put Facebook Graph Search through its paces yet, but I'd think it will potentially impact LinkedIn. Of course, LI won't sit around idly, either, and no doubt is reworking and extending its capabilities, too! There's some cross-over between the markets and, from a marketing perspective FB's new tool is fascinating from what I've read.
@Mitch, thanks for the post. No doubt Facebook Graph search will be of help to businesses and users but it also brings more opportunities for scammers and potential embarrassment for people who are careless about their privacy settings.
Having used LinkedIn's advanced search capabilities extensively for the past couple of years, I know just how powerful it can be.
@Alison, I totally agree with you. LinkedIn's advance search is very useful to both employees looking for job and employers looking for candidates to fill the job. Do you think Facebooks graph search will have any impact on the linkedIn's business ?
In my experience, every time Facebook introduces something they seem to break two other previously working things.
This post on Develop in the Cloud covers some of the cons of Graph other than the security risk Mitch mentions. Essentially, the information pulled has been less impressive than first thought as well as the usual privacy issues.
But really, we should all be used to this by now. It seems every feature Facebook introduces breaks two things, violates privacy and makes reclaiming the existing privacy more difficult, introduces a new security risk and doesn't live up to its hype.
Still, I think the Graph does mean a lot of opportunities to certain industries using Facebook.
Having used LinkedIn's advanced search capabilities extensively for the past couple of years, I know just how powerful it can be. The interesting component of FB is that people are looser, more open to discussing their personal lives, since LinkedIn has always positioned itself as a professional networking site and FB has always been marketed and used as more of a personal space.
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