Is it necessary for friends to "be an advantage" to you besides just being your friends? No, not at at all. I just have no friends from my early days. (Ruthl

Is it necessary for friends to "be an advantage" to you besides just being your friends? No, not at at all. I just have no friends from my early days. (Ruthlessly bullied throughout school. Midwest children had no tolerance for programming geeks circa 2000.) One of the primary ways people can find "you specifically" is through Facebook, and the other way is through LinkedIn. That's all I meant by "you need Facebook". Recruiters, for example. I've gotten way more random LinkedIn offers that have led to jobs than I ever would've guessed. (~7 offers, 2 jobs. But of course the "offers" are just "offers to interview"; still, that's something.)