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Why Aren’t Job Seekers Using LinkedIn?

Social media is slowing becoming the preferred method to communicate. We used to call each other. Then we sent emails. We text way more than we talk now, but Facebook and Twitter has created the most efficient way to echo our inner thoughts to any in the world 24 hours a day.

It’s not an evil thing. It’s just new and some people get it, some don’t. Some abuse it, get abused by it while others run as far away from it as they can.

Ironically, we’re in a time with high unemployment, a disproportionate amount of talented people looking for work and an understanding that networking is the fastest way to find a new job, yet I don’t get as many requests to connect on LinkedIn, which essentially is designed just for that. There aren’t any photo albums to show off your tan from a recent vacation, a game where killing people makes you the hero nor an environment which encourages you to share with the world what you’re cooking tonight. Then again, those aren’t the things you’d share to get a job.

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I’m Now a Twit

TwitterIt was just yesterday [more like a decade and a half ago!] it seemed like I first created my own BlackPlanet page. Didn’t know what to do with it, but I had it.

Then I played around with Friendster, but it did nothing for me. I don’t even think I had a friend on it. Bebo, hi5, some other obscure social networking site. Then came along MySpace. It took me forever to finally get onboard, and it was cool for the first couple months, but with an ancient laptop at home, loading some of your pages overloaded with slide shows, music jukeboxes, video clips of every Cosby Show episode, I couldn’t take it anymore. LinkedIn was and still is a great social networking site, but it’s all business.

Then came along Facebook. I caved in after swearing off social networking sites because everyone and their grandmothers, literally, were on it. Facebook has almost become validation someone exists. If you don’t have Facebook [i.e. Eric Mack] it’s like you only exist in the mortal dimension of life; you’re missing the core of life. The dimension where people bare their souls and share every aspect of their lives. The hottest social networking site around the globe, that is, until the next hottest social networking site around the globe.

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