Infinitely Meta » social networking http://blog.infinitelymeta.com The possibilities are endless. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:11:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Top 10 Reasons I should get a free Techcrunch50 invite http://blog.infinitelymeta.com/2008/08/top-10-reasons-i-should-get-a-free-techcrunch50-invite/ http://blog.infinitelymeta.com/2008/08/top-10-reasons-i-should-get-a-free-techcrunch50-invite/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:31:29 +0000 Brian Daniel Eisenberg http://blog.infinitelymeta.com/?p=78 10. Seattle is the new San Francisco

9. I've had breakfast AND lunch with Scoble.
Jeff Pulver & Robert Scoble
FF signs w. Robert Scoble & FF's newest engineer Gary Burt

8. I once strapped a camera on my head and pretended to be iJustine.

7. I got better Gadgets than Nik Cubrilovoic.
New mobile technique for ultra slim mobile internet on the go. No laptop!
mobile geekery. now gamma powered.
rockin the mobile geekery...whoa.

6. I got .flv video clips of Mike, Shel, Nik, Loic, & Calley talking all sorts of nonsense on Qik.

5. http://federatedclouds.com

4. http://reefinabox.net

3. http://infinitelymeta.com

2. http://refriend.me

1. http://ytranslate.us

0. UPDATE: I had to unblock Jason McCabe Calacanis before I sent my @reply on Twitter.

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Regarding my use of Linked In -

"I must admit that I have a LI account, but I have not updated it in probably 6 years. I've been working with the same team for 8+ years, having weathered 4 M&A events and countless reorgs. I've come to ignore Linked In because after having gone through the first M&A event, the only time I would get Linked In email would be when friends are riffed and forced to move on to other new positions in the industry."

*Expanding on comment here*

This became a recurring pattern after a while, where the only times I'd ever get email updates From Linked In were from people who were let go or less often just quit for other opportunities. I found myself trying to avoid accepting any of the "friend requests" or whatever their term is for adding people to your network, and I just stopped using it altogether.

I haven't logged into my account in years and if you check out my profile, you'll see that the last position I posted was "Senior Product Manager", which was 2 companies and three job title's ago.

I'm tempted to login to Linked In and update my profile, just so my stuff is accurate, but I have this recurring fear that all those people who tried to "friend" me and all of my CURRENT colleagues are going to come out of the woodwork and start picking my profile apart.

Many of my professional colleagues are not on Twitter, Friendfeed, or most of the other social networking sites I use regularly, and I'm not sure that I want them to "invade" the communities that I participate in outside of my dayjob.

I'm all for transparency, but I'm having a very hard time figuring out the right balance between personal vs my professional uses of these socnets.

What do you think? I'm very curious to hear what other people think and where I'll find the most valuealbe advice.

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