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Facebook love: it's complicated
Dec 4 - For the Facebook generation, love now comes with a drop down menu to define a relationship.
The current generation has replaced varsity jackets and class rings with links on social networking sites like Facebook.
This
week's Web Winners: social-networking sites for grownups.
Source: 
Philadelphia
Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Publication
Date: 31-JUL-07 B
Social-networking sites aren't just for children and college
students. At least that's the pitch at places like LinkedIn, Ryze
and Xing, which have positioned themselves for job hunters or
business climbers.
CLASSMATES.COM
From their ads featuring animated kissy-face yearbook photos, you'd
think this site is about locating an old high school flame. Well ...
it is. But it also boasts tools for planning class reunions, keeping
old military buddies in touch, and expanding business contacts. The
Workplace area has members in 2.3 million companies, where you
supposedly might find someone who can get you a job.
LINKEDIN
At this site, you build a network of people you know, then get
linked to the people that they know, and so on _ you become
"linked-in," get it? We're not sure we do. In a two-day period,
there were 12,246 new people in our network. What if they all want
to drop by for coffee?
XING THING
Xing is a German firm with another variation on the
six-degrees-of-separation theme. Curiously, the sign-up process
requires prospects to aver that they have not only read the terms of
service, but downloaded and "saved them or printed them out." "Ja!
Truly bizarre was the dropdown menu for choosing your time zone. The
list presented to us began with Adak and ended with Menominee. We
had to look them up to discover Adak is in Alaska and Menominee is
in Michigan.
RYZE UP
"You probably know people in here already," says the home page. To
find them, you may first want to join the "virtual handshake
network." Other interesting groups include an eBay sellers network,
one called "outside of the box," and another named the "inflammation
fighters."
EONS AND EONS
How did we know we had landed on a networking site for the "mature"
crowd? Maybe it was the slogan, "Lovin' life on the flip side of
50," or the prominent home page link to obituaries.
Reid Kanaley:
rkanaley@phillynews.com (c) 2007, The Philadelphia
Inquirer.
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