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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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How Much Do You Know About Geotagging?

Red Pill or Blue Pill

 

Would you believe that I still have some friends who aren’t on Facebook? I thought I was a conspiracy theorist, but their paranoia is condemning them to the technological dark ages. They see the shadows on the wall and are afraid those shadows could be following them around with not-so-social intentions.

And don’t even mention any of the new ones, so many I can barely keep up. Twitter, LinkedIn and Plaxo. Fourquare, Gowalla and SCVNGR. Facebook Places and Google Latitude. Buzz and Pulse. Hmmm. Does anyone know exactly how many social networking sites are out there!?

But then I received an email attachment from my homeboy CJ Cline, and it kind of opened my eyes to how wide open we are in our efforts to be more socially connected. Geotagging is something many people may not be able to explain, but many are unwittingly participating.

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Trying to Catch Kutcher on Twitter

Lately I’ve been reading more tweets from those I’m following, and I gotta say, it’s pretty entertaining. Tami and Taru are pros. I’m trying to figure out where Shanna and the MingleBerry crew is at? Daz? You’re my tech expert; where you at?

For you non-twits [Adisa!] I promise it’s harmless. It’s really just a huge list of absolutely random, ummm, stuff. It’s like reading Facebook status updates just with all the other Facebook stuff. You read what you want, post nothing if you’d like and just, well, I’m not exactly sure what to do with it. If nothing else, just follow Oprah.

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Twitter Defines “Only Two Types Of People”

As I bring up Twitter more often with more people, my realization that there are “only two types of people” in the world started to make more sense. And each of those “only two types of people” has multiple layers of multiple categories of “only two types of people.” And on each layer [and category] there are “only two types of people” broken up into multiple categories [and layers] of “only two types of people.” Millions of layers and categories!

But “only two types of people.”

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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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Growing Pains of Growing Up in Just 5 Years

FacebookFive years ago a 19-year-old started a social networking website. Last August it had 100 million users. In less than 8 months it looks like it’s going to double that number. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, I’m sure wasn’t expecting this kind of success this fast, but now Facebook has to manage it and figure out how to protect itself from high debt [storing all those photos uploaded every second does cost money!] while remaining competitive with new forms of competition such as Twitter.

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