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Fabulously Fortysomething » Facebook, Ahluvit! — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:20:09 +0000

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What is Facebook? « Sezzy’s Weblog — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:13:29 +0000

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By: Rajan Sodhi

Rajan Sodhi — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:42:37 +0000

Businessgolf, thanks for your impressions of Facebook. Very interesting, I wasn’t aware that it was so demographically skewed. I guess it makes sense that the number of people who uptake on a fairly new site like Facebook will run in line with the highest concentrations of people in the US geographically. It will be interesting to see how the site evolves. I’ve joined a few of the business social networks like the ‘DemoCamp group’ on the site. Facebook has the potential to evolve as a more useful business tool, but is by far much more about the ’social thing’ right now.

By: businessgolf

businessgolf — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:58:09 +0000

Rajan, My old Friend.

Facebook has come a long way and I agree with you on it being a slick site, but it is a social site first and the business aspects look to be far less important to the power of beings of Facebook. I too have been over there for a while so I can get some first hand what is going on.
As far as demographics I seriously question the numbers of ACTIVE members on Facebook. Plus I am not sure there is anyway to validate the numbers.
I don’t see that kind of activity there and find that the site’s membership is primarily centered in the Northern California region of the USA, which creates the cultural business discriminations between the different cultures across the country and around the world. It is totally different in the social aspect and much more open.
Until Facebook builds business cultural centers all around the world I don’t see it become a viable site for business networking…getting a date or finding about the latest Techy gadget, they have it covered…but not promoting business.

By: Rajan Sodhi

Rajan Sodhi — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:23:07 +0000

Hi Luke, I think if Facebook allowed you to tag or qualify certain ‘friends’ as ‘business associates’ who can see/read only things you allow them to through your settings, I feel it can definitely rival LinkedIn.

By: Carolina Event Planning

Carolina Event Planning — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:45:55 +0000

The social networking trend has left some of us “old schoolers” far behind. Guess I need to get with the program.

Ed
http://www.CarolinaEventPlanning.com

By: Luke Bearden

Luke Bearden — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:04:28 +0000

In regards to the linkedin comment…
Do you feel that the facebook community would be accepting of making business connections in their social space? Good post by the way, great to see someone else truly appreciates the usefulness of facebook.

By: Rajan Sodhi

Rajan Sodhi — Thu, 24 May 2007 00:21:42 +0000

Great questions, Alex. My answer is “I don’t know” since I haven’t been involved in anything political online. I do know that many political groups and causes are using social networking sites like MySpace to generate support. All of the US candidates have been very active this time around on social networking sites. We have also seen many grassroots movements that originate online take shape in the real world. From what I have seen, Facebook and other community sites, as well as blogs, can be used very effectively to motivate the masses as long as it’s well targeted to people who are interested, otherwise these efforts can be viewed as a nuisance.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:29:28 +0000

I am a member of facebook and I enjoy it mainly for keeping in contact with friends who I don’t see at school. We are able to share pictures through tagging each other in facebook and are able to joke with each other every now and again.

The following question is mainly work related.
Do you think politics can be brought into facebook? Is the facebook crowd motivated enough to deliberate about political leaders using facebook as a platform?
There are ways to create groups and invite people to events, but do you see any long-term use for these?
Can facebook organize people around an ideology and get them to act on it. For example, if people are part of a May 15 gas boycott or a Vote for Barack group, do people feel obligated to follow through?