Comments on: Why have LinkedIn and Facebook if the contacts will overlap?

By: Viktor

Viktor — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:08:36 +0000

I agree.

One thing you should think of thou:
If you publish pictures on faceboook and "close" your profile you think your safe. But you'r not!

If you use software likes Xobni you can view pictures even if you don't have the person as a friend, network, open profile etc. That's scary!

So, next time you put night-out pictures on facebook Erik. Think twices.

By: CrisBetewsky

CrisBetewsky — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:48:00 +0000

Where did you take from such kind of information? Can you give me the source?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:25:57 +0000

I agree with your article. I created a limited profile on Facebook for people that you described that aren’t good friends, etc.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:25:00 +0000

I agree with your article. I created a limited profile on Facebook for people that you described that aren’t good friends, etc.

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:50:04 +0000

I love this artcle! Mainly because I agree with you, LOL! My Facebook page is my “fun” page: it’s where I talk about hobbies, my family, and silly arcane things that mean alot to me. With Facebook’s security settings I can actually control which of my friends see which information, which I also love.

My LinkedIn persona is “grown up”: it’s my business network, equally important to me, but different. Anything I write here is “serious”, although just as passionate. It’s therefore more focussed on my “work” side.

I’m passionate about both my career and my personal life and I love how I can express those passions on two distinct social media platforms.

NOW: I’m intrigued about your comment regarding Twitter and Facebook. I’d like to hear more about how you distinguish between these two platforms. For me, they are linked, to the point where I have now installed software that allows me to broadcast on both at the same time. Love to hear your thoughts: can you put this in another article perhaps?

Thanks!

–e.

By: Elisabeth Bucci

Elisabeth Bucci — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:50:00 +0000

I’m passionate about both my career and my personal life and I love how I can express those passions on two distinct social media platforms.

Thanks!

–e.

By: Sanjay Sabarwal

Sanjay Sabarwal — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:42:06 +0000

I really think its come down to common sense. Whatever you post publicly is just that: for anyone to see. I have deciced to focus on twitter and facebook mainly because they interact well, and while I use Linkedin periodically, its really mainly due to maintain my business group. If I had it my way, I would consolodiate them all on one social media site.

By: Sanjay Sabarwal

Sanjay Sabarwal — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:42:00 +0000

By: Viktor

Viktor — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:56:33 +0000

I agree.

One thing you should think of thou:
If you publish pictures on faceboook and “close” your profile you think your safe. But you’r not!

If you use software likes Xobni you can view pictures even if you don’t have the person as a friend, network, open profile etc. That’s scary!

So, next time you put night-out pictures on facebook Erik. Think twices.

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:37:42 +0000

Couldn’t agree more on the difference between Facebook and LinkedIn. There are people that I have connected to me on LinkedIn I would never add on Facebook and visa versa for a lot of the reasons you mentioned. On Facebook the atmosphere is more friendly and relaxed, I can post silly meme notes of no consequences or fun pictures from a night out without worrying about them falling into the wrong hands because I choose the wrong security settings on them.

And as I side note I do tend to fall in with those folks that think the new new (new?) Facebook has removed a lot of its usefulness by becoming a bloated Twitter.