The Future The Future The Future....

Everybody tries t be the 'south sayer on the mountain top' who picks the winner in all new developments but is there ever a true winner? Linkedin & Facebook are two different applications in the general area of soft networking.... one is totally business orientated and the other is definitely more social.
Winner implies a battle between equals & there are so many differences in how they function that these are not comparable as far as I'm concerned

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com Written by Bernard Lunn / November 16, 2007 / 11 comments In the heyday of the Facebook hype (it seems so long ago now!), Facebook was going to eat LinkedIn’s lunch. Based on recent experience, I don’t think so. I recently had reason to use LinkedIn seriously, using my existing network to tap into a market that I had not previously been exposed to. I had not used LinkedIn since the early days, so this was my first serious update. LinkedIn and The Future of Business Networking I have NOT used Facebook seriously. I registered out of curiosity about the phenomenon and found that the only network I could join was based on zip code - and that was useless. Then Read/WriteWeb set up a group on Facebook, but I looked once and left. When I want the Read/WriteWeb network, I go to the site itself