People will always need jobs and to find new customers, so LinkedIn seems like the slow & steady winner here. Facebook, as the article says…
With its awkward design, 1990s-style layouts, weird privacy policies, and intrusive advertising, Facebook is vulnerable to the next best thing.
And the next best thing isn't always the newest thing….
h/t to +Travis Campbell for the original share.
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LinkedIn Will Outlive Facebook. Here’s Why
Facebook's latest $1 billion acquisition smacks of a desperation that LinkedIn consistently manages to avoid.
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Less idiotic postings from LinkedIn….I love it.
linkedin has a worse UI than facebook atm
I agree…. linked in seems more "naturally" monetized and it may even outlive G+ (possibly) of course FB is good for tweens/teens and linked in is for the professional and G+ has its own niche that is undefined so maybe it is moot to say who or what will outlive another….
+Russell Lewis if the design makes it easy to access the functionality, then it works. No system is ever going to be perfect, but I like the changes LinkedIn has implemented over the past year or so much more than the Facebook UI changes (with the exception of the cover art – I love that). LinkedIn is all "work", and people are not there for entertainment – so I'm thinking as long as they get what they want out of the system people are willing to overlook it. Facebook's purpose is to be social and fun.
I prefer LinkedIn for professional updates and Facebook for personal ones. I like the balance between the two. I don't think Facebook is going anywhere soon.
+Thomas Monte Facebook will be around for a while. 90% of the folks I know haven't had a second thought about discontinuing its use, only curtailing time spent on it.
Thanks +Lynette Young for kicking this off. There will always be personal bias as to which network serves which purpose best. For those who want to connect for business purposes, LinkedIn is the platform.
However, I would charge that Google+ is quickly moving in the right direction. In my view it is a more social platform for the business user than LinkedIn, more activity. My current description of Google+ to clients and naysayers, a blend of Twitter and LinkedIn. LinkedTwin.
I don't really see them as competitors so much … it's more like broccoli vs chocolate cake … I need broccoli as a healthy part of my diet and I don't really think about whether I "like it" … chocolate cake I eat, simply because I want to … LinkedIn, the Broccoli of my digital day … hmm, may not be too catchy … but neither one are going anywhere, soon.
pointless comparison… networking is different than (mostly bs) socializing.
+Travis Campbell I would agree, except add that one of the things I really like about G+ is that it can also be a Facebook – type social platform if they wanted it to be. It's flexibility is one of its pluses. Pun intended.
Couldn't care less about LinkedIn…
+Joe Rector that's perfect! Broccoli & chocolate cake! I may have to 'borrow' that in presentations I do!
if you're going to linkedin to mention that you saw the latest twilight movie, you're in the wrong place! or to say how high you got last night, wrong place! so how does it "compete" with facebook?
Haha. I use LinkedIn very heavily for work. I'm on it at least 3 hours a day & I've noticed that – even if someone has a profile – they're not necessarily active on it.
Neither service will be "forever." That's a really long time.
It's easy to imagine the LinkedIn replacement – but really difficult to imagine what would cause over 750 million Facebook users to leave and use another service. It will happen, though.
I just added LinkedIn buttons to my blog replacing the StumbleUpon badges I had previously. I get way more engagement and quality traffic from LI than I thought.
OH, and +Travis Campbell is like the anti Chris Lang. Wish I could be so polished, AND the guy knows what he is doing. :]
Interesting that this just came out today as well: http://mashable.com/2012/04/19/branchout-25-million/
I have used Lin 100% for business, never for social. I don't even thing about it for social, and I think they are ok with that distinction.
+Chris Lang there is no one like you! That is why so many pay attention to you. A bit off topic, but remember this time last year? A dying Google buzz was all we had to talk about, how much things change in just a matter of months.
Facebook and LinkedIn same kind but different audience. When comparing the 2 if at all, should be based on the value that the networking that the each platform brings along with it. LinkedIn brings in value with each connection.
+Travis Campbell I hope G+ doesn't have the same fate as Buzz. That brings up a good question. Since you two experienced Buzz to its fullest, how would you compare the sentiments and reaction to G+ as compared to Buzz.
+Blair Warner, for the golfers among us, Buzz is your local charity golf outing, and Google+ is the Masters or British Open.
LinkedIn has a very specific purpose. I think because of that, what people do with it and how they see it, is far more focused. I think it's gained a pretty good spot as the "rolodex" of work-based networking, and from that standpoint, it's far more valuable than Facebook could ever be. But whether it will become the sort of giant that FB is, and G+ is poised to be, is another question. I think as long as LI's creators keep that in mind, they won't fall off by the wayside and disappear suddenly. We'll see.
wow!
very true, I am on it my boss put me there
very true, I am on it my boss put me there
very true, I am on it my boss put me there
sorry, grandma isn't going to join LinkedIn when Facebook has the whole family tree already signed up.