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I'm not sure you could call LinkedIn a social network. It can be nice to find out about an old friend, but most of it is pure business. So I'm not surprised abo

• hessenwolf 15y ago
  I agree with your point about the survey results being due to it being pure business, but I still think it is a 'social network'; it's just not one that is made to spend a long time on. I take a gander at it circa once a month. (Their new feature that shows everybody that I looked at their profile though really concerns me.)
• bad_user 15y ago
  The best thing about LinkedIn for me is their recommendations system. Whenever I'm looking at people's profiles on LinkedIn, I'm looking at their work history and their recommendations, the other stuff being basically useless. And mostly I value recommendations coming from people I know. So it's a social network and I think it is more pure and valuable than the Facebook graph since on LinkedIn you only want a thousand connections if you're an HR person, not because you need friends for Zynga games, so most people on LinkedIn have between 10-200 connections representing old colleagues.
  • pagekalisedown 15y ago
    Aren't people giving out recommendations like it's going out of style?
  • goombastic 15y ago
    The recomendations aren't going anywhere these days. I distrust people with a huge number of recommendations and when you read through, you understand it's a mutual favors system. Not that mutual favors are bad, just that most of it so shallow.
• r00fus 15y ago
  I'd say LinkedIn is more social than Facebook. It certainly provides a useful service to it's users (both hiring and looking-to-be-hired). It can do this because people care about where/what their friends and colleagues are working.