Life after LinkedIn

[Lisa Clark]

What sites are you currently looking at as replacement site for LinkedIn? As they push more and more for us to pay I am sure that many of you are already checking out other sites.

[Christine McKenzie]

Hi Lisa,
I am not sure there will be a "replacement site" for LinkedIn. Here are a few stats from earlier this year - I can only imagine each have grown since as social media becomes more popular each day.


* Twitter now has 75m user accounts.
* LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide..
* Flickr now hosts more than 4 billion images.
* More than 35m Facebook users update their status each day.
* Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis (Generally growing 40% every 5-6 months)
* Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours.

Facebook is still changing - perhaps as users become more comfortable with being able to list "business" contacts separate from "personal" contacts, recruiting will become easier from this site.

Thanks,
Chrissy

[Christine McKenzie]

Also, while its a pain, you can still locate the last name of a third connection by opening that persons profile and then clicking on a name listed under "viewing the profiles also viewed" section...more then likely that persons full name will show in the next listing.

Thanks,
C

[Joyce Wilson]

Not any more they don't, looks like they caught on to that one too.

[James Grimes]

I pay $299 a year and get 3 inmails a month and would not trade it for anything. It is cheap why would you not become a premium member as a Recruiter?

[Christine McKenzie]

I agree. I have access to the Recruiters Desktop...its much appreciated these days.

[Irina Shamaeva]

Hi all,
If you have trouble seeing the last name of a 3rd level connection, feel free to forward profile to me or to another friend. That helps. You can send yourself a copy.


Joyce Wilson said:

Not any more they don't, looks like they caught on to that one too.