Six Degrees of Who Cares?
Lance Ulanoff,
PC Magazine,
Aug 05, 2005
Yeah, OK, we know that LinkedIn (and Friendster, and Orkut - one wonders why the author has it in for LinkedIn) doesn't really deliver the social nirvana advertised. But does this? "The connections we remember the most are the ones we've made in person where we've exchanged cards and conversation - possibly even emotions and ideas." Cards? I lose cards by the dozen - and always seem to forget my own. Conversations? Maybe, but depending on my dim memory for faces and names is just asking for trouble. "If a good friend or business associate introduces me, in person, to someone, I'll probably pay attention to that second degree of connectivity." Doesn't work that way for me. What are my connections? They are the people I read, and even more importantly, the people I link to. My social network is my content network - something none of the social networking sites, save perhaps Flickr (and maybe Yahoo), seems to have caught on to. Every time you see the word 'via' on my site - that's my social network software working. Via elearnspace.
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