How do you use social networking site?

A social networking poll has been posted on the main page of LDS Tech. The power of social networking is tremendous and they can be used for so many different things. If you do use these sites, how do you use them?

Just a note that your link might want to point to the page with the POLL, rather than directly to the results.

Mike

That has been fixed along with having the same question twice.

Tom

The only social networking site I actually feel comfortable with at the moment is the Linked-in network:

http://www.linkedin.com

as an IT professional it keeps me linked to colleagues. I'm not 100% comfortable with ones such as facebook, though I do have friends at Church who keep in contact with people they've met from around the World using it, I'm just not comfortable with posting so much personal information and I've heard horror stories of people trying to delete their accounts and all that's happened is that they've been de-activated rather than have all of their personal information deleted.

Rgds
Paul

I have heard the same thing about Facebook. However I think in the last few years they have really improved. When Facebook was exclusively for students, it required a university email address, I signed up. When I transfered schools I tried to just change my email but it ended up creating another profile. For a long time I had two profiles. However the incorrect one was deleted and I can no longer log in. I've also been impressed recently with their improved privacy settings and the flexibility you have to show specific information to specific groups of people. It made me feel a whole let better about letting my little sister, who is 16, sign up for an account.

I use LinkedIn and Plaxo for all of my business contacts. To just keep up with friends I used Facebook.


Tom

I've used several, and maintain a few:

* stumbleupon.com - helps feed me sites that I am interested in and logs the sites that I value (kind of like an online bookmarking program)

* ning.com - YM/Scouting resources and coordination across all of Texas including storage of resources; family site

* linkedin - professional

* facebook.com - family/alumni - not kept up much

* plaxo - professional (but get tired of the reminders so in disfavor)

Does anyone use LDS.net?

LinkedIn – Keeping in contact with current/past colleagues, job hunting, and reading ‘Answers’ section for learning what experts have to say on various topics.

Twitter – Microblogging thoughts and content I would like to share with friends and other techies. It’s a great medium for keeping up with the popular tech leaders and early adopters. I usually keep my conversations private as not to scare off my non-techie followers.

Friendfeed – Using for same purposes as Twitter but much better for conversation with popular tech leaders. I lurk more than participate on this site.

Facebook/Myspace – Keeping up with friends. Great for sharing content like photos and videos. Also good for keeping track of birthdays and communicating with friends instead of email. I only use email for work.

Digg/Reddit/Del.icio.us – Used for collecting the latest and most popular news that is tech related and humorous.

Tumblr – My family has a tumblelog where we all share videos, photos, articles, quotes, etc.

I’ll stop there.

I use LinkedIn exclusively. I set up an account on MySpace and Facebook to see if I could find some old friends, but to me, those sites are mostly just fluff. The reason LinkedIn is good is because it is simple and it showcases what is really important to an individual. Like youtube, 99% of the stuff on Facebook and MySpace is garbage.

Cassie: Yes, I have visited lds.net on numerous occasions. There are actually some pretty interesting discussions going on in their forums.

Brad O.

In Brazil, Google's Orkut (www.orkut.com) is the greatest hit in social networking. Facebook, Myspace and Windows Live Spaces is most in use too. I have all my Church contacts at my Orkut profile. With new improvements, I like more Orkut now than before. To us in Brazil (I believe), Facebook and Myspace are new because of language translations to Portuguese are new features.

I use LinkedIn for professional contacts, and Facebook for family and friends. I have a MySpace page, but that's just so I can be a friend to my kids and can then see what they are posting online and what their friends are saying to them.

telfordca wrote:Does anyone use LDS.net?

<Going to check it out now.>

I belong to several. Usually because friends/colleagues of mine use different things. Some of them I use rather anonymously for internet content/blogging because the Internet isn't always a friendly place. Others I use for professional networking, and others for social purposes.. keeping up with old friends etc.

It's quite a chore keeping up with 5 or more different accounts.. I think the technology is still nascent and we'll see some partnering/convergence yet.

MorettiDP wrote:In Brazil, Google's Orkut (www.orkut.com) is the greatest hit in social networking. Facebook, Myspace and Windows Live Spaces is most in use too. I have all my Church contacts at my Orkut profile. With new improvements, I like more Orkut now than before. To us in Brazil (I believe), Facebook and Myspace are new because of language translations to Portuguese are new features.

I use Orkut to keep up with many of my friends/contacts from my mission in Brazil.. I was very surprised that some people that didn't have a phone when I was there in 91-93 now have ready access to computers and have active Orkut pages.

If you want evidence that the Lord is helping push technology and communications around the globe.. look no further. It's amazing.

telfordca wrote:Does anyone use LDS.net?

I created an account tonight after seeing your post. Looks a little busy/cumbersome to me, but I'll play with it.

iPosty wrote:I use Orkut to keep up with many of my friends/contacts from my mission in Brazil.. I was very surprised that some people that didn't have a phone when I was there in 91-93 now have ready access to computers and have active Orkut pages.

If you want evidence that the Lord is helping push technology and communications around the globe.. look no further. It's amazing.

I birth in 1986. I can see my country in change. Since 1991 many things changed. The Lord is blessing Brazil more day by day. I am so grateful for it!

I now use Facebook (finally caved in) for non business stuff and I do agree with many of the concerns about these sites but the great thing is that it is US who control how much or how little we want to share with everyone and the amount of time we spend on it.

I simply dont have the time or see the point in daily posting messages of my mood as well as sending the hugs and kisses regularly but because I dont live close to many of my friends and relatives then this provides a good way to communicate with them through both text and pictures.

Personally I have found both lost friends and lost family members through this so I have to admit my view on Facebook is now much more positive.