jericho

Was just wondering if anyone on here is using social network sites for work?

My employers have had a sales conference recently where all the sales guys were encouraged to get on to sites like linkedin to boost their contacts etc and I wasnt really aware how much prospecting (etc) goes on by this method....

Alan2005

People register with linked in - but nobody that I know actually uses it for anything - all the accounts are dormant. I used to be on it but then I realized social networks were lame and so I deleted my account.

bsmith

...surprised it's still going? - always thought it was a kind of Friends Reunited for people who weren't very popular at school?

MB-Realtor

I started to Twitter, and I was quite conscientious for 3 weeks, then I noticed that people who were following me were just following me in the hope that I'd follow them, anyway I have not tweeted for several months, but my followers continue to increase

Total waste of time for any normal person.

Alan2005

I can see the use of twitter for real time commentaries - financial, political, sporting etc. You are right about it being a waste of time for most people - who cares about what other people are doing? not me.

Alan2005

I joined up cos I got an email saying somebody added me. That was my only activity until I deleted the account.

MB-Realtor

I worked hard on giving a weekly update on the Winnipeg House market, but I didn't get one "real" person following me, only other people trying to market themselves. Thats still true now.

sparkling_gal

I never really got the hang of LinkedIn but I do use Facebook and Twitter. But - most of my connections on there are with folk I'd already built relationships with online, prior to joining the networks.

Social networking is much the same as networking in "the real world". It's about building relationships, not finding a bunch of mindless followers to sell a bunch of stuff to.

You really have to think about what you can do for others first - not what you can get out of them.

Stewart - How come you have no Twitter followers? Did you try following other folks who live in your area, or people who are interested in moving there? You can't just expect people to come and find you on Twitter.

el_richo

The company i work for have started using "Yammer" in some of the organisations.

MB-Realtor

I had followers, the point I was making was that even though I have not tweeted for months I still keep getting more followers.

It was just .... Silly.

sparkling_gal

I found it's best not to follow back everyone who follows you. Have you tried searching Twitter for Winnipeg? Maybe you could find decent people to follow that way.

I use Facebook more than Twitter tho - as it's not in real time, so you're not relying on people to be online at the same time as you.

You can add me if you like - my twitter username is CathLawson. I don't know if you'll manage to persuade me to move to Winnipeg tho - I'm confused enough about where to live as it is.

mandymoochops

What the hell is the point of twitter??????

linz3112

I have had it described as a legal way to stalk celebrities........not sure if it's really stalking though when the idiots are actually announcing there whereabouts etc!!

el_richo

A narcissistic enabler

sparkling_gal

I think for the majority of users, there is no point at all Mandy. Probably a small minority get any real benefit from it. I don't use it often but I know some folk who have it switched on all day.