Comments on: This is about LinkedIn http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/this-is-about-linkedin/ Notes from the classroom and observations about today's practice of journalism online Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:35:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mindy McAdams http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/this-is-about-linkedin/#comment-755 Mindy McAdams Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:08:04 +0000 http://www.mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/this-is-about-linkedin/#comment-755 I think if I were in my 20s, Facebook would be a big thing for me. LinkedIn doesn't require any time from me at all -- it's a good tool, like my cell phone. Useful. But not something I'm using all the time. My students have a very different relationship with their cell phones. Same tool, different applications. LinkedIn has a lot of similarities to Facebook, but it's not a hangout or a check-in place, the way Facebook is for young people. I think if I were in my 20s, Facebook would be a big thing for me. LinkedIn doesn’t require any time from me at all — it’s a good tool, like my cell phone. Useful. But not something I’m using all the time. My students have a very different relationship with their cell phones. Same tool, different applications. LinkedIn has a lot of similarities to Facebook, but it’s not a hangout or a check-in place, the way Facebook is for young people.

]]> By: Danny Sanchez http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/this-is-about-linkedin/#comment-754 Danny Sanchez Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:39:09 +0000 http://www.mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/this-is-about-linkedin/#comment-754 I'm not a MySpace guy personally, but all of my old buds from UF are on Facebook. I do believe that having easy access to that old college network could prove to be as or more helpful than my LinkedIn network. Of course, this doesn't necessarily apply to those-over-30... I’m not a MySpace guy personally, but all of my old buds from UF are on Facebook. I do believe that having easy access to that old college network could prove to be as or more helpful than my LinkedIn network. Of course, this doesn’t necessarily apply to those-over-30…

]]> By: Angela Grant http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/this-is-about-linkedin/#comment-753 Angela Grant Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:18:27 +0000 http://www.mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/this-is-about-linkedin/#comment-753 I'm with you that it's a lot more important and worthwhile than facebook or myspace. I actually have a profile on all three...But I use them about the same amount of time.<br/><br/>Basically I only go on them when I get an email that someone has left me a message or sent an invitation or whatever. Then I get interested for about five minutes and I'll do some inviting or messaging of my own. Then I get tired of it, and promptly forget about it until I get an email again. I’m with you that it’s a lot more important and worthwhile than facebook or myspace. I actually have a profile on all three…But I use them about the same amount of time.

Basically I only go on them when I get an email that someone has left me a message or sent an invitation or whatever. Then I get interested for about five minutes and I’ll do some inviting or messaging of my own. Then I get tired of it, and promptly forget about it until I get an email again.

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