How do you use social networking sites - or do you?.  Smartmobs brings to light a divide between companies using social
networking tools such as LinkedIn, Ryze.com,
et al to recruit for professional positions, even executive-level ones — usually in conjunction with the more
traditional HR approach of tapping into ‘non-virtual’ social networks.
But some are questioning the usefulness of these sites in general, saying they make finding contacts more difficult
rather than more effective. Count Corante’s Stowe Boyd among the latter, having recently started a campaign to
unlink
himself from
the dozens of social services of which he is a member, citing essentially a too-low signal to noise ratio in the
contacts he’s received through the services.
What’s your take on this? Do you participate in social networking as a business tool, or do you find it of little
value? Have any of you considered or started to unlink yourselves from these services?
[The Social Software Weblog]
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