I find Linked-In pretty useful to stay in contact with former coworkers and fellow students from university. To a journalist, whose contacts may be more accust

I find Linked-In pretty useful to stay in contact with former coworkers and fellow students from university. To a journalist, whose contacts may be more accustomed to the benefits of actually staying in contact and who sees professional networking as part of their job, the benefits of a streamlined social networking sites may be much less clear, of course.