Which Social Networks Are You Active In?

March 22nd, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Out of all the social networks like myspace, bebo, hi5 etc the only one I’m reasonably active in is LinkedIn, where I’ve just this second made my 400th connection taking my network up to 1.73m people.

I think I’ve made so many LinkedIn connections because I tend to keep my work address book up to date so I’ve made connections to a lot of professional contacts, but I love how it also allows me to keep tabs on what old friends and colleagues are up to.

I also try to keep my LinkedIn profile up-to-date as it’s the 2nd result if you Google my name, beaten only by a link to a blogging conference in the UK that I attended two years ago, which is linked to by nearly every blogger that attended. I don’t mind this too much as this is why I managed to get a Page Rank of 4 within a month of launching this site as some high profile UK bloggers linked to my write-up.

I have very little use or time for other social networks like myspace, bebo, hi5, pasado, orkut etc. I don’t know if I’m in the wrong age bracket or something, but they just don’t appeal to me. In fact, I haven’t even registered with most of them.

Are you a big user of any of these networks? What are your favourite features?

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Comment by Dan and Jennifer on 22 March 2007:

    MyBlogLog all the way!!!

    Seriously, we’ve made a lot of really great connections with other bloggers and a lot of our readers through the MyBlogLog service and the associated picture widget.

    It’s amazing what these guys did with a basic not-very-fancy-at-all free blog stats tracking package… they made it into a social network that you can plug into your site.

    It really adds a sense of community around the site, both for you as the author and also for visitors to look and see that real people are visiting - it makes you and your site more real, not just “some online place”.

    Also the avatar photos are great when added to your comments through the mybloglog wordpress plugin.

    Never really got into the LinkedIn thing, I think because it seemed like a somewhat costly ongoing fee to be able to connect with the people in your networks, so didn’t look all that appealing after I set up the first few connections.

    Facebook looks promising… I did set up my profile and managed to add a few friends, but it just feels a bit cramped to me. And “writing on someone’s wall” is kinda fun, though perhaps in a “marking your territory” sort of way. :-)

    Our MySpace page (linked from the links section in our blog nav bar) is pretty popular too, but it just doesn’t seem to have the personal connection as far as I’m concerned.. and most of the connection requests we get are somewhat “spammy” if you will… or is this maybe a culture gap? I did just have another birthday this weekend. :-)

    Have an awesome day!
    Dan

  2. #2

    Comment by Alpesh Nakar on 22 March 2007:

    MyBlogLog. Not active on Linked-In. Could not look you up on Linked-In!

  3. #3

    Comment by Everton on 22 March 2007:

    Could not look you up on Linked-In!

    This is why you can’t find me on LinkedIn ;-)

  4. #4

    Comment by Mr.Byte on 22 March 2007:

    too many social networks these days….i actually forgot in what all I have signed up till date :-(

  5. #5

    Comment by Stephen Glauser on 22 March 2007:

    I was at a time active on Hi5, but gave that up the moment I joined Facebook. Facebook is by my favorite social network, mainly due to the demographics of the place I guess. Also, ignorant users can’t uglify their profiles which makes for a much cleaner, more uniform experience.

  6. #6

    Comment by Yumcha Girl on 22 March 2007:

    This is a great post because I am actually building a social network for Asian professionals right now. I think the appeal of any particular network is the target demographic. I had no interest in myspace for example because I found most people who are active in it were very young. I really enjoy mybloglog.com however, because I too have a blog (the creators were very smart fellows!).

  7. #7

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  8. #8

    Comment by Lin on 22 March 2007:

    I use MySpace the most but only because my main reason for using social networking sites is to find old friends and more people seem to have MySpace profiles than anyone else. I like the topic specific social networkings sites too. My son belongs to one for athletes because he’s a bike racer and he can meet other bike racers from all over the country.

  9. #9

    Comment by engtech on 23 March 2007:

    MyBlogLog and Facebook.

    Playing around with Twitter a bit.

    Active on StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit but you didn’t ask that. :)

  10. #10

    Comment by Dan and Jennifer on 23 March 2007:

    Ok Engtech, I’ll see your StumbleUpon and Digg, and raise you Netscape. :-)

    Have an awesome day!
    Dan

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