LinkedIn

Nicholas Cutrone

10/28/13

LinkedIn

        LinkedIn is a huge social networking platform like Facebook but is for professionals. Such professionals can be students in college that are trying to figure things out for their education and it is also for business opportunities. What Facebook lacks that LinkedIn has is that Facebook is not easy to find people because it is all over the place demographically while LinkedIn enables you to access and amazing search tool that allows you to find the person you are looking for but it also depends on how many specific factors there are for that person.

        This site is mainly for professionals therefore it is a great tool for businesses and for finding out different jobs. LinkedIn gives you the reassurance that there are so many jobs out there that you are bound to get one if you know where to start. LinkedIn is a site that you are able to find people and give or receive advice for job interviews, finding jobs, figuring out what jobs are good for you and it also helps you even if you have a job to make yourself more efficient at that job or finding out ways to find a solution to problems that you come in contact with while at the workplace doing your job.

        Although LinkedIn may be known as a professional style social media website that is for businesses and business opportunities and advice for getting jobs and making you better at your job, it still is also a social media website that allows you to reconnect with your classmates for college. LinkedIn may be seen as an inferior social media website then that of facebook but LinkedIn facilitates the ability to reconnect with people because its search tool targets and finds the person that matches the description that they have inputed into the networking site where as for facebooks demographics is so out of whack that it proves difficult to find old classmates or old friends that you would like to reconnect with.

LinkedIn Is not used for recreational nor is it used for entertainment purposes it is used for the sole purpose of reconnecting with old friends and old classmates that you have had in college and people that you would like to meet and share and get business tips from on how to get jobs and how to make yourself better at the job you currently have.

The downside however is that it can be abused because people could find and sell personal and business information about others just by looking up the different people on the social media website and the website can’t get in trouble for that because it is not them, the first party, but it is the third party which are other businesses or other users of this social media website.

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