But seriously.. another social networking site? I'm already getting social networking fatigue managing Linkedin.com, Orkut, Facebook. I hardly check Myspace, hi5 or Minglebox these days. And no I haven't yet joined the plethora of other sites like Jhoos, Bigadda ad infinitum.
Bill Ives pointed to an interesting survey:
Doug Cornelius posted an interesting survey on his KM Space blog. He conducted a survey of law school summer associates. He said that these are preliminary results:More than 80% have a Facebook account
I now have a Facebook account and recently wrote on The Emergence of Facebook for Business. I am likely to check it frequently as I like the rich context it provides. I never “check” LinkedIn but I do respond to things that come through it. I opened a MySpace account because of a friend but never check it so I guess I correlate with these findings.
Of those, 2/3 check Facebook at least once a day
Only 25% have a LinkedIn account
Of those, only 10% check LinkedIn once a week, with the rest answering rarely
Only 20% have a MySpace account
Of those, 1/4 check it once a week, with the rest answering rarely
Yeah, that sounds around the same things that I do too.
gautam
ReplyDeleteslight disagreement.
there is a slight difference in my view:
linkedin and joso can be really classified as professional networking sites unlike orkut and the likes which is pure social networking..
renji
http://renjinair.blogspot.com/
I have published the full results of the survey.
ReplyDeletehttp://kmspace.blogspot.com/2007/09/updated-social-network-site-survey.html
Doug Cornelius
kmspace.blogspot.com